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Making Love in the Twelfth Century - "Letters of Two Lovers" in Context (Hardcover)
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Making Love in the Twelfth Century - "Letters of Two Lovers" in Context (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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New, sparkling translations of the Letters of Two Lovers, the
Tegernesee Letters, and selections from the Regensburg Songs Nine
hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female
student fell in love and chronicled their affair in a passionate
correspondence. Their 116 surviving letters, some whole and some
fragmentary, are composed in eloquent, highly rhetorical Latin.
Since their discovery in the late twentieth century, the Letters of
Two Lovers have aroused much attention because of their extreme
rarity. They constitute the longest correspondence by far between
any two persons from the entire Middle Ages, and they are private
rather than institutional-which means that, according to all we
know about the transmission of medieval letters, they should not
have survived at all. Adding to their mystery, the letters are
copied anonymously in a single late fifteenth-century manuscript,
although their style and range of reference place them squarely in
the early twelfth century. Can this collection of correspondence be
the previously lost love letters of Abelard and Heloise? And even
if not, what does it tell us about the lived experience of love in
the twelfth century? Barbara Newman contends that these
teacher-student exchanges bear witness to a culture that linked
Latin pedagogy with the practice of ennobling love and the cult of
friendship during a relatively brief period when women played an
active part in that world. Newman presents a new translation of
these extraordinary letters, along with a full commentary and two
extended essays that parse their literary and intellectual contexts
and chart the course of the doomed affair. Included, too, are two
other sets of twelfth-century love epistles, the Tegernsee Letters
and selections from the Regensburg Songs. Taken together, they
constitute a stunning contribution to the study of the history of
emotions by one of our most prominent medievalists.
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