The Letters of Abelard and Heloise are a set of letters exchanged between the twelfth century theologian Peter Abelard and Heloise, his former student, after the end of their romantic relationship and their separate entries into monastic life, Abelard as a monk and Heloise as an abbess. The letters combine intense personal feeling with intellectual argument, discussing their earlier relationship alongside questions of religious life, and are read as primary evidence for medieval attitudes toward gender, love and monastic discipline. They have been influential in the history of European letter writing and continue to draw the attention of historians and literary scholars studying medieval intellectual and personal life. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Latin: Epistolae Abaelardi et Heloisae) are two series of passionate and intellectual correspondence apparently written in Latin during the 12th century.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Latin: Epistolae Abaelardi et Heloisae) are two series of passionate and intellectual correspondence apparently written in Latin during the 12th century.
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apparently written in Latin during the 12th century
In Group: Diplomatic Correspondence and Secret Agreements of the Medieval and Early Modern World, 1000 to 1699, Article text
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Latin: Epistolae Abaelardi et Heloisae) are two series of passionate and intellectual correspondence apparently written in Latin during the 12th century.
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