Abelard and Heloise

by Constant J. Mews

Book Overview

Constant J. Mews offers an intellectual biography of two of the best known personalities of the twelfth century. Peter Abelard was a controversial logician at the cathedral school of Notre-Dame in Paris when he first met Heloise, who was the brilliant and outspoken niece of a cathedral canon and who was then engaged in the study of philosophy. After an intense love affair and the birth of a child, they married in secret in a bid to placate her uncle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195156897
• ISBN13: 9780195156898
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.2"