This is the first modern study of Heloise in all of her personal and historical contexts. Mary Martin McLaughlin looks at her medieval and modern fame and makes a cogent argument for the authenticity
The letters of Heloise and Abelard are one of the great romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization, while the writers themselves are second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued
The letters of Heloise and Abelard remain some of the great romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization while the writers themselves are probably second only to Romeo and Juliet in the f
Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Durer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Ra
In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity
