Forbidden Fruit: From the Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Great Loves) - Softcover

Heloise; Abelard, Peter

 
9780141032771: Forbidden Fruit: From the Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Great Loves)

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The illicit relationship between Peter Abelard, a medieval philosopher, and his young pupil Heloise is one of history’s most legendary and tragic love affairs. From reckless ecstasy to public scandal and cruel separation, their eloquent and intimate letters tell the story of their passionate, doomed romance.

United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love….

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Peter Abelard was a French philosopher and the greatest logician of the 12th century. He taught in Paris, where Heloise was his pupil. After the tragic end of their marriage, she became a nun & he a monk.

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9780141034805: Forbidden Fruit: From the Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Great Loves)

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ISBN 10:  0141034807 ISBN 13:  9780141034805
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2007
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