The most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abelard and Heloise ever presented in a single volume in English,  The Letters and Other Writings  features an accurate and stylistically faithful new translation of both  The Calamities of Peter Abelard  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. In addition to the  The Calamities  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  Confession of Faith , letters between Heloise and Peter the Venerable, the Introduction to  The Questions of Heloise , 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.

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