Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. At age 19, and living under her uncle Fulbert's roof, Heloise...

Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course does the very concept of Self. Peter Abelard, the...

Traduction, introduction et notes par Roland-Denise Oberson L'histoire d'Héloïse et Abélard fait figure de mythe : celui d'une jeune fille à peine nubile, qui doit affronter le scandale d'être enceinte....