Making Love in the Twelfth Century

Making Love in the Twelfth Century
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9780812248098
ISBN-13 : 0812248090
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Book Synopsis Making Love in the Twelfth Century by : Barbara Newman

Download or read book Making Love in the Twelfth Century written by Barbara Newman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the Letters of Two Lovers be the previously lost love letters of Abelard and Heloise? Making Love in the Twelfth Century presents a new literary translation of the collection, along with a full commentary and two extended essays that parse its literary and intellectual contexts and chart the course of the doomed affair.


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