Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman

by Bonnie Wheeler

Heloise, 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 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 international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312213549
• ISBN13: 9780312213541
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"