{"product_id":"abelard-and-heloise-the-letters-and-other-writings-9780872208759","title":"Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter Abelard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abelard and Heloise ever presented in a single volume in English, \u003ci\u003eThe Letters and Other Writings\u003c\/i\u003e features an accurate and stylistically faithful new translation of both \u003ci\u003eThe Calamities of Peter Abelard\u003c\/i\u003e and the remarkable letters it sparked between the ill-fated twelfth-century philosopher and his brilliant former student and lover--an exchange whose intellectual passion, formal virtuosity, and psychological drama distinguish it as one of the most extraordinary correspondences in European history. Thanks to this edition, Latin-less readers will be better placed than ever to see why this undisputed milestone in the intellectual life of medieval France is also a masterpiece of Western literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the \u003ci\u003eThe Calamities\u003c\/i\u003e and the letters--the first complete English translation of all seven in more than eighty years--this volume includes an Introduction, a map, and a chronology, Abelard's \u003ci\u003eConfession of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e, letters between Heloise and Peter the Venerable, the Introduction to \u003ci\u003eThe Questions of Heloise\u003c\/i\u003e, and selected songs and poems by Abelard, among them a previously untranslated shaped poem, Open Wide Your Eyes. Extracts of lost letters sometimes ascribed to Abelard and Heloise are given in appendixes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hackett Publishing Co, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45049780437143,"sku":"9780872208759","price":1814.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780872208759.webp?v=1769225679","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/abelard-and-heloise-the-letters-and-other-writings-9780872208759","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}