Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman Format:Hardcover Stay in Your Place

Stay in Your Place

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ISBN-10: 0310717531

Choice 01/01/2004 pg

Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman Format:Hardcover Stay in Your PlaceHeloise, the twelfth century French abbess and reformer, emerges from this book as one of history's most extraordinary women, a thinker writer of profound insight and skill. Her supple and learned mind attracted the most radical philosopher of her time, Peter Abelard. He became her teacher, lover, husband, and finally monastic ally. That relationship has made her fame until now. But Heloise is far more important in her own right. Seventeen experts of