Listening To Heloise

Chapter 1 Heloise the Abbess: The Expansion of the Paraclete

Chapter 2 Authenticity Revisited

Chapter 3 Philosophical Themes in the Epistolae Duorum Amantium : The First Letters of Heloise and Abelard

Chapter 4 The Young Heloise and Latin Rhetoric: Some Preliminary Comments on the “Lost” Love Letters and Their Significance

Chapter 5 Textual Strategies in the Abelard/Heloise Correspondence

Chapter 6 Heloise, Dialectic, and the Heroides

Chapter 7 Classical Myth and Gender in the Letters of “Abelard” and “Heloise”: Gloss, Glossed, Glossator

Chapter 8 “In Any Corner of Heaven”: Heloise’s Critique of Monastic Life

Chapter 9 The Curse of Eve: Female Bodies and Christian Bodies in Heloise’s Third Letter

Chapter 10 Heloise Redressed: Rhetorical Engagement and the Benedictine Rite of Initiation in Heloise’s Third Letter

Chapter 11 Listening to Heloise at the Paraclete: Of Scholarly Diversion and a Woman’s “Conversion”

Chapter 12 No Outlet for Incontinence: Heloise and the Question of Consolation

Chapter 13 Heloise and the Consolation of Friendship

Chapter 14 Quae Maternae Immemor Naturae: The Rhetorical Struggle Over the Meaning of Motherhood in the Writings of Heloise and Abelard

Chapter 15 Pierre Bayle’s Reflections on a Much Discussed Woman: The Heloise Article in the Dictionnaire Historique Et Critique