Suggestions for Further Resources
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER
RESOURCES
These suggestions are put forward with the interests of students and other first-time readers of Abelard and Heloise in mind. For a fuller list, see the Works Cited and Select Bibliography.
Adams, Henry. 1986 (c. 1905). Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin, chapter 14.
Brower, Jeffrey E., and Kevin Guilfoy, eds. 2004. The Cambridge Companion to Abelard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Clanchy, Michael T. 1997. Abelard: A Medieval Life. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Dronke, Peter. 1976. Abelard and Heloise in Medieval Testimony. Glasgow: University of Glasgow. Reprinted in Dronke 1992, 247–94.
———. 1984b. Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua (†203) to Marguerite Porete (†1310). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 107–43.
———. 1992. Intellectuals and Poets in Medieval Europe. Rome:
Edizioni di storia e letteratura.
Gilson, Étienne. 1960 (c. 1938). Heloise and Abelard. Trans. L. K.
Shook. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Kauffman, Linda S. 1986. Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 63–89.
Luscombe, David E., ed. and trans. 1971. Peter Abelard's Ethics.
Oxford: Clarendon Press.
———. 1988a. "From Paris to the Paraclete: The Correspondence of Abelard and Heloise." Proceedings of the British Academy 74, 247–83.
———. 1988b. "Peter Abelard." In Dronke 1988b, 279–307.
Marenbon, J. 1997. The Philosophy of Peter Abelard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McLaughlin, Mary Martin. 1967. "Abelard as Autobiographer: The Motives and Meaning of His 'Story of Calamities.'" Speculum 42,
463–88. xxxvi
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xxxvii ———. 1975. "Abelard and the Dignity of Women." In Louis, Jolivet, and Châtillon 1975, 287–334.
McLeod, Enid. 1971. Héloïse: A Biography. 2nd ed. London: Chatto and Windus.
Mews, Constant J. 1999. The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard:
Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France. Trans. with N.
Chiavaroli. New York: St. Martin's.
Monastic Song: 12th Century Monophonic Chant. Performed by the Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier, director. Harmonium Mundi,
HMU 907209.
Newman, Barbara. 1992. "Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22,
121–57. Reprinted in From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Pernoud, Régine. 1973. Heloise and Abelard. Trans. P. Wiles. New York: Stein and Day.
Spade, Paul Vincent, trans. 1995. Peter Abelard: Ethical Writings. Indianapolis and Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing.
Wheeler, Bonnie, ed. 2000. Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a TwelfthCentury Woman. London: Macmillan.
SOME NOTABLE RECREATIONS:
Audouard, Antoine. 2004. Farewell, My Only One. Trans. Euan Cameron. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Brenton, Howard. 2006. In Extremis: The Story of Abelard and Heloise.
London: Nick Hern Books.
Carson, Anne. 2005. "H & A Screenplay." In Decreation, 127–45. New York: Knopf.
Meade, Marion. 1979. Stealing Heaven. New York: William Morrow.
See also the 1988 film of the same name directed by Clive Donner.
Millar, Ronald. 1970. Abelard and Heloise: A Play. London: Samuel French.
Moore, George. 1921. Héloïse and Abélard. New York: Horace Liveright.
Newman, Sharan. 1963. Death Comes as Epiphany. New York: Tom Doherty Associates. See also Newman's other mystery novels in the Catherine LeVendeur series.
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Pope, Alexander. 1717. "Eloïsa to Abelard." Frequently reprinted.
Rinser, Luise. 1998. Abelard's Love. Trans. Jean M. Snook. Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press.
Twain, Mark. 1869. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., chapter 15. Frequently reprinted.
Waddell, Helen. 1933. Peter Abelard—A Novel. New York: Henry Holt. Frequently reprinted.
Whitman, Cedric. 1965. Abelard. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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