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Heloise & Abelard : a new biography / James Burge.
LIBRA - Special BX4705.A2 B87 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burge, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
- Héloïse.
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.
- Abelard, Peter.
- Theologians--France--Biography.
- Theologians.
- Abbesses, Christian.
- France.
- Abbesses, Christian--France--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [First HarperCollins paperback edition].
- Other Title:
- Heloise and Abelard
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2006]
- Contents:
- The letters of two lovers
- "Darling"
- "At last I came to Paris"
- "By doubting we come to inquiry, by inquiry we come to truth"
- Master of the schools
- "Need I say more?"
- Love and marriage
- "The story of my misfortunes"
- St. Denis
- "Not strong enough to dig, too proud to beg"
- "You are greater than heaven, greater than the world"
- Return to Paris
- The comforter
- The Council of Sens
- "And so Master Peter ended his days."
- Notes:
- Includes Insight guide (p. 322-336)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0060816139
- 9780060816131
- OCLC:
- 70786627
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