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Epistolae duorum amantium : Parodien - auf ein berühmtes Liebespaar?
- Title
- Epistolae duorum amantium : Parodien - auf ein berühmtes Liebespaar? / von Rüdiger Schnell.
- Author
- Schnell, Rüdiger
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
- © 2022
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Details
- Description
- x, 628 pages : illustration; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "For 20 years medievalists have been debating whether these love letters have been written by Abelard and Heloise. The present study comes to a surprising result. The famous lovers are ridiculed in and by these letters. On the one hand the male writer appears to be a show-off, a macho, while on the other hand he emerges as a 'crybaby' who humiliates himself to secure the object of his desire. The female writer is stylized as the epitome of ideal love, but above all, she hopes for sexual pleasure. However, her desire is cleverly concealed by the borrowing from religious vocabulary in the letters"--
- Series Statement
- Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 0076-9754 ; Volume 55
- Uniform Title
- Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; Bd. 55.
- Subject
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142 > Correspondence
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142 > Translations into German
- Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 > Correspondence
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142
- Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164
- Latin letters, Medieval and modern > France > History and criticism
- Love-letters > History
- Parody in literature
- Philosophers > Correspondence
- Latin letters, Medieval and modern
- Love-letters
- Philosophers
- France
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Literary criticism.
- Personal correspondence.
- Translations.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-622) and index.
- Language (note)
- Original text in Latin, extensive introductiory material and critical matter in German.
- Call Number
- JX 22-7061
- ISBN
- 9789004471900
- 9004471901
- 9789004434493
- 9004434496
- 9789004434509
- 900443450X
- LCCN
- 2021048814
- OCLC
- 1286070330
- Author
- Schnell, Rüdiger, author.
- Title
- Epistolae duorum amantium : Parodien - auf ein berühmtes Liebespaar? / von Rüdiger Schnell.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- © 2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 0076-9754 ; Volume 55Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; Bd. 55.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-622) and index.
- Language
- Original text in Latin, extensive introductiory material and critical matter in German.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Schnell, Rüdiger. Epistolae duorum amantium Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] 9789004498167 (DLC) 2021048815
- Research Call Number
- JX 22-7061