Listening To Heloise

Heloise, the twelfth-century French abbess and reformer, emerges from this book as one of history''s most extraordinary women, a thinker-writer of profound insight and skill. Her supple and learned mind attracted the most radical philosopher of her time, Peter Abelard. He became her teacher, lover, husband, and finally monastic ally. That relationship has made her fame until now. But Heloise is fa...