Table of Contents

Introduction History And Legend The Letter Collection Other Letters Other Letters Relating to the Oratory of the Paraclete Authorship and Authenticity of the Letter Collection Style and Structure Epistulae Duorum Amantium The Development of the Oratory of the Paraclete History of the Text The Surviving Manuscripts Lost or Uncertainly Identified Manuscripts and other Testimonies to the Letter Collection Prior to the First Printed Edition Rejected Manuscripts Summary List of Surviving and Lost or Uncertainly Identified Manuscripts in Approximate Chronological Order and of their Provenance or Earliest Known Possessors Printed Editions of the Letter Collection: Before 1800 Printed Editions from 1800 of the Letter Collection which use one or more Manuscripts, both Latin and French The Present Edition Relationships between the Manuscripts Stemma The Edition The Translation Sigla of the Manuscripts Summary of Manuscript Witnesses to each of the Letters and of their Extents Letter 1 Letter 2 Letter 3 Letter 4 Letter 5 Letter 6 Letter 7 Letter 8 The Rule Bibliography Concordance Indexes

About the Author

David Luscombe studied and taught in the University of Cambridge and was Professor of Medieval History in the University of Sheffield until 2003. He has edited other writings by Abelard and has written extensively on the history of medieval thought and religion. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1986 and was President of the International Society for Study of Medieval Philosophy (S.I.E.P.M.) from 1997 to 2002.

Reviews

On account of the fullness, accurary, and clarity with which the evidence for the Latin text and its context is presented, I am convinced that the volume will frequently be consulted by scholars who seek further to understand one of the most dynamic and interesting periods of medieval history.
*Alexander Andrée, University of Toronto, The Journal of Medieval Latin*

David Luscombe's massive and surely definitive edition...adds a rich apparatus of commentary...We should give thanks for Luscombe's learned, comprehensive and humane exposition.
*The Times Literary Supplement*

magisterial... a daunting achievement that, for the first time, lets readers compare all the available manuscripts and read the canonical letters from beginning to end.
*Edward Mendelson, London Review of Books*

A landmark in Abelardian scholarship.
*Wim Verbaal, Revue d'Histoire Ecclesiastique*

This new edition of the letter collection of Abelard and Heloise is a wonderful and seminal contribution to the scholarship, which should be unanimously welcomed ... The edition itself is meticulous and based on a study of all the Latin manuscripts, at least two of which have not been used in previous editions.
*Hannah Skoda, English Historical Review*