Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060736637 (0060736631)
Publish date: November 30th 2004
Publisher: HarperOne
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Christianity,
France
Heloise and Abelard have endured these 900 years because they wrote letters, lots of letters, and theirs is a great love story unto itself. But what most intrigues me is its personification of the struggle between the human and the divine that culminated in the Renaissance. Though they died long bef...