Peter Abelard

Standard Name: Abelard, Peter
Used Form: Petri Abaelardi

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Publishing Héloïse
Nearly five hundred years after they were written, the letters of Héloïse and Abelard were published at Paris in Latin.
Charrier, Charlotte. Héloïse. Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion.
599
Publishing Héloïse
Letters of Abelard and Heloise, translated by John Hughes , was published at London.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Methuen; Yale University Press.
2: 295n6
Textual Features Hildegarde of Bingen
Although the first version of the Symphonia, a poetic cycle that praises God, Mary, and certain saints, was completed in 1158, HB continued to add poems to it until her death.
Newman, Barbara. “Poet: ’Where the Living Majesty Utters Mysteries’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, pp. 176-92.
182-3
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Textual Features Sally Purcell
On a Cenotaph quotes a phrase from Baudelaire 's poem Lesbos: the shocking juxtaposition of a dead body with adoration in le cadavre adoré di Sapho . Though SP supplied notes to some things...
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
Abelard to Eloisa, an epistolary reply written in 1720 by Judith Cowper (who by now was Judith Madan) to Pope 's Eloisa to Abelard, was published in William Pattison 's posthumous works.
The...
Textual Production Hélène Gingold
HG published the five-act tragedy Abelard and Heloise.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
247 (5 October 1906): 339
Textual Production Hélène Gingold
HG was inspired to write this play when she stumbled across the tomb of Héloïse and Abelard in the Père Lachaise Cemetery of Paris. She felt compelled to write an interpretation of their story...
Textual Production Alexander Pope
AP published his one-volume Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, including the previously unpublished epistle Eloisa to Abelard and Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Methuen; Yale University Press.
2: 312
Textual Production Constantia Grierson
A long untitled poem in CG 's manuscript album beginning Ah Theodosius could mankind but see expresses the love of Constantia for Theodosius, using a literary veil drawn from the story of lovers of these...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
Helen Waddell published a historical novel entitled Peter Abelard (in which, naturally, Heloise is also an important figure).
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Helen Waddell
HW never completed the work with which she hoped to crown her career as a scholar, a study of John of Salisbury (who lived in the twelfth century and was a pupil of Abelard ...
Textual Production Héloïse
Héloïse , having read Abelard 's autobiographical Historia calamitatum, began a correspondence with him in the same language, Latin.
Radice, Betty. “The French Scholar-Lover: Héloïse”. Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, pp. 90-108.
94-5
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Carson
More familiar medieval figures, Héloïse and Abelard , appear in this volume too, in a screenplay or dialogue.
Sampson, Fiona. “Symphony of sighs”. theguardian.com.

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