Epistolae Abelardi et Heloisae

Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Authors

Peter Abelard&Héloïse d'Argenteuil

Language

Medieval Latin

Year

c. 1129 - 1135

Country

France

Genre

Correspondence / Letters

Part of

Confession of Faith

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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise are two series of passionate and intellectual correspondences apparently written in Latin during the 12th century. The purported authors, Peter Abelard, a prominent theologian, and his pupil, Heloise, a gifted young woman later renowned as an abbess, exchanged these letters following their ill-fated love affair and subsequent monastic lives.