 | Making Love in the Twelfth Century: @quot;Letters of Two Lovers@quot; in Context Subjects: Love-letters -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Latin letters Medieval and Modern -- History and criticism; Letter writing -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Love -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Abelard Peter 1079–1142; Héloïse approximately 1095–1163 or; 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. Barbara Newman is John Evans Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Northwestern University. She is author and editor of many books, including God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages, winner of the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America, and From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature. Both are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
