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Sender(s):
Receiver(s):
- Peter Abelard
Date:
Translated letter:
see Betty Radice, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), p.109-18.
Original letter:
Historical context:
Heloise expresses her distress over the situation Abelard describes in the "Historia" and rebukes him for not writing to her and not taking more responsibility for the convent he founded. It may be that Heloise uses her strong declaration of unabated physical desire to shock Abelard out of his depression, to make him feel responsible for her and her nuns, and to give him a new purpose by her series of requests for writings, see Joan M. Ferrante, To the Glory of Her Sex (Bloomington: Indiana University, 1997), p.57-59.
Scholarly notes:
Manuscript source:
Printed source:
J.T. Muckle, "The Personal letters between Abelard and Heloise," Medieval Studies 15 (1953), ep.1, p.68-73.