Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Abelard’s life and works
* Features the collected works of Abelard, in both English translation and the original Latin
* Concise introduction to the author and his work
* Multiple translations of Abelard and Héloïse’s letters: John Hughes, 1713 and C. K. Scott Moncrieff, 1925
* Moncrieff’s rendition was the first time the complete, unredacted Latin letters were translated into English
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare translations by J. Ramsay McCallum of Abelard’s ‘Ethics’ and ‘The Christian Theology’, first time in digital print
* Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables
* Features three bonus biographical texts — discover Abelard and Héloïse’s medieval world
CONTENTS:
The Translations
Letters of Abelard and Héloïse (1713 translation)
Letters of Abelard and Héloïse (1925 translation)
Ethics
The Christian Theology
The Original Texts
Letters of Abelard and Héloïse (Latin text)
Ethics (Latin text)
The Christian Theology (Latin text)
Dialogus inter philosophum, iudaeum et christianum (Latin text)
Sic et non (Latin text)
The Biographies
A Mediæval Woman (1894) by Edward T. McLaughlin
Peter Abelard (1911) by George Croom Robertson and James Thomson Shotwell
Peter Abelard (1913) by William Turner
