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The autobiographical and confessional writings of Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet were concerned with religious authenticity, spiritual sincerity and their opposite - fictio, a composite of hypocrisy and dissimulation, lying and irony. How and why moral identity could be feigned or falsified were seen as issues of primary importance, and Peter Godman here restores them to the prominence they once occupied in twelfth-century thought. This book is an account of the relationship between ethics and literature in the work of the most famous authors of the Latin Middle Ages. Combining conceptual analysis with close attention to style and form, it offers a major contribution to the history of the medieval conscience.

Christian moral theology --- Christian church history --- Petrus Abaelardus --- Heloise --- Conscience --- Christian ethics --- Conscience (Morale) --- Morale chrétienne --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Histoire --- Abelard, Peter, --- Héloïse, --- Conscience. --- Christliche Ethik --- Gewissen --- Fictionaliteit --- Integriteit --- Spiritualiteit --- Catholic Church. --- Abaelardus, Petrus --- Geschichte 500-1500. --- Ethics --- Guilt --- Superego --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Heloise, --- Abaelard, Peter, --- Abaelardi, Petri, --- Abaelardus, --- Abaelardus, Petrus, --- Abailard, Peter, --- Abailard, Pierre, --- Abailardus, Petrus, --- Abeilard, Pierre, --- Abélard, Pierre, --- Abelard, Piotr, --- Abelardo, --- Abelardo, Pietro, --- Abeli︠a︡r, Petr, --- Abelʹi︠a︡rd, Petr, --- אבעלאר, --- Christliche Ethik. --- Gewissen. --- Fictionaliteit. --- Integriteit. --- Spiritualiteit. --- Abaelardus, Petrus. --- Morale chrétienne --- Héloïse, --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Catholic Church --- Ėloiza, --- Eloisa, --- Heloísa, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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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 their discovery in the late twentieth century, the Letters of Two Lovers have aroused much attention because of their extreme rarity. They constitute the longest correspondence by far between any two persons from the entire Middle Ages, and they are private rather than 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?Barbara Newman contends that these teacher-student exchanges bear witness to a culture that linked Latin pedagogy with the practice of ennobling love and the cult of friendship during a relatively brief period when women played an active part in that world. Newman presents a new translation of these extraordinary letters, along with a full commentary and two extended essays that parse their literary and intellectual contexts and chart the course of the doomed affair. Included, too, are two other sets of twelfth-century love epistles, the Tegernsee Letters and selections from the Regensburg Songs. Taken together, they constitute a stunning contribution to the study of the history of emotions by one of our most prominent medievalists.

Love-letters --- Latin letters, Medieval and modern --- Letter writing --- Love --- 392.6 "04/14" --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- Erotic literature --- Courtship --- History --- History and criticism. --- Seksualiteit. Seksueel leven. Concubinaat. Samenwonen. Prostitutie. Erotiek. Seksuele gebruiken. Liefdeskunst--Middeleeuwen --- Abelard, Peter, --- Héloïse, --- Ėloiza, --- Eloisa, --- Heloísa, --- Abaelard, Peter, --- Abaelardi, Petri, --- Abaelardus, --- Abaelardus, Petrus, --- Abailard, Peter, --- Abailard, Pierre, --- Abailardus, Petrus, --- Abeilard, Pierre, --- Abélard, Pierre, --- Abelard, Piotr, --- Abelardo, --- Abelardo, Pietro, --- Abeli︠a︡r, Petr, --- Abelʹi︠a︡rd, Petr, --- אבעלאר, --- Epistolae duorum amantium. --- Tegernseer Briefsammlung des 12. Jahrhunderts. --- Carmina Ratisponensia. --- Héloïse, --- Tegernseer Briefsammlung des 12. --- 392.6 "04/14" Seksualiteit. Seksueel leven. Concubinaat. Samenwonen. Prostitutie. Erotiek. Seksuele gebruiken. Liefdeskunst--Middeleeuwen --- History and criticism --- Letters of two lovers --- Medieval Latin literature --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.