Making Love in the Twelfth Century : "Letters of Two Lovers" in Context / Barbara Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newman, Barbara, 1953- author, translator.

Contributor:

Newman, Barbara, editor.

Series:

Middle Ages series.

The Middle Ages Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.

Abelard, Peter.

Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.

Héloïse.

Epistolae duorum amantium.

Tegernseer Briefsammlung des 12. Jahrhunderts--Selections.

Tegernseer Briefsammlung des 12. Jahrhunderts.

Carmina Ratisponensia--Selections.

Carmina Ratisponensia.

Love-letters--Europe--History--To 1500.

Love-letters.

Latin letters, Medieval and modern--History and criticism.

Latin letters, Medieval and modern.

Letter writing--Europe--History--To 1500.

Letter writing.

Europe.

Genre:

Lettres d'amour.

Love letters.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Love letters

Translations

love letters.

Love-letters.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Nine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student fell in love and chronicled their affair in a passionate correspondence. Their 116 surviving letters, some whole and some fragmentary, are composed in eloquent, highly rhetorical Latin. Since its discovery in the late twentieth century, the Letters of Two Lovers has aroused much attention because of its extreme rarity. These letters constitute the longest correspondence by far between any two persons from the entire Middle Ages, and they are private rather tha institutional-- which means that, according to all we know about the transmission of medieval letters, they should not have survived at all. Adding to their mystery, the letters are copied anonymously in a single late fifteenth-century manuscript, although their style and range of reference place them squarely in the early twelfth century. Can this collection of correspondence be the previously lost love letters of Abelard and Heloise? And even if not, what does it tell us about the lived experience of love in the twelfth century?"--Jacket.

Contents:

Making love in the twelfth century : an essay in the history of emotions

Abelard and Heloise? : some frequently asked questions

Letters of two lovers

Love letters from Tegernsee

From the Regensburg songs

"To a fugitive lover."

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-356) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

Contains:

Container of: Epistolae duorum amantium. English

Container of: Tegernseer Briefsammlung des 12. Jahrhunderts. Selections. English

Container of: Carmina Ratisponensia. Selections. English

ISBN:

9780812292725

0812292723

OCLC:

948780929