Description: Repentant Abelard : Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's Carmen Ad Astralabium and Planctus, Hardcover by Ruys, Juanita Feros, ISBN 0312240023, ISBN-13 9780312240028, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "The great medieval thinker Peter Abelard is renowned for his uncompromising and radical approach to ethics and theology, a towering public figure in twelfth-century schools and monasticism. The Repentant Abelard argues, however, that later in his life, Abelard's thoughts turned again towards his own family, and it explores the works he wrote at this time for his former wife Heloise and son Astralabe. These include six laments (Planctus) for Heloise written in the voices of Old Testament figures, works of extraordinary poetry, resonant with love, sorrow, and despair. For his son he wrote a long poem of didactic advice (Carmen ad Astralabium) in which he summarized decades of his controversial ethical and theological ideas. This book offers a new Latin edition of these texts complete with first-time full English translation and comprehensive notes. The works are introduced by thematic, stylistic, and reception studies which reveal how powerful and unique these texts are within Medieval Latin literature. As such, they stand as truly personal gifts from Abelard to his family"--
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Book Title: Repentant Abelard : Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's
Number of Pages: Xvi, 355 Pages
Publication Name: Repentant Abelard : Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's Carmen Ad Astralabium and Planctus
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Philosophers, Historiography, Europe / General, Europe / Medieval
Item Height: 1 in
Features: Revised
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 239.9 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Juanita Feros Ruys, John O. Ward, Junita Feros Ruys
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History
Series: The New Middle Ages Ser.
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
