Beschreibung:
Can the Letters of Two Lovers be the previously lost love letters of Abelard and Heloise? Making Love in the Twelfth Century presents a new literary translation of the collection, along with a full commentary and two extended essays that parse its literary and intellectual contexts and chart the course of the doomed affair.
PrefaceProlegomena—Making Love in the Twelfth Century: An Essay in the History of Emotions—Abelard and Heloise? Some Frequently Asked QuestionsTranslations and Commentary—Letters of Two Lovers—Love Letters from Tegernsee—From the Regensburg Songs—"To a Fugitive Lover"AppendicesA. KeywordsB. Citations, Allusions, and ParallelsC. Salutation TypesD. Word FrequenciesE. Cursus and Rhymed ProseF. Distinctive Features and MotifsG. Abelard, Heloise, and the ParacleteNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments