Contents
CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Note on the Texts xxxiv Suggestions for Further Resources xxxvi Map of Northern France in the Time of Abelard and Heloise xxxix Chronology xl The Calamities of Peter Abelard
Letters of Abelard and Heloise
First Letter: Heloise to Abelard
Second Letter: Abelard to Heloise
Third Letter: Heloise to Abelard
Fourth Letter: Abelard to Heloise
Fifth Letter: Heloise to Abelard
Sixth Letter: Abelard to Heloise
Seventh Letter: Abelard to Heloise
The Questions of Heloise: Introductory Letter
Abelard's Confession of Faith
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viii CONTENTS Letters of Heloise and Peter the Venerable
Peter to Heloise
Heloise to Peter
Peter to Heloise
Selected Songs and Poems of Peter Abelard
Dull Is the Star
Hymn for Saturday Vespers: How Great the Sabbath
Hymn for the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
Hymn for the Night Office and Vespers
Lament of the Virgins of Israel for the Daughter of Jephtha
Lament of David for Saul and Jonathan
Open Wide Your Eyes:
A Shaped Poem on the Incarnation of the Word
To Astralabe, My Son
Appendix A: From "The Letter to Philintus"
Appendix B: From The Letters of Two Lovers
Works Cited and Select Bibliography
Index of Passages Quoted, Cited, and Discussed
General Index