Making Love in the Twelfth Century
Barbara Newman
ISBN: | 9780812292725 |
Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Published: | 29 April, 2016 |
Format: | ePub |
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Making Love in the Twelfth Century
Barbara Newman
Nine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student fell in love and chronicled their affair in a passionate correspondence. Their 116 surviving letters, some whole and some fragmentary, are composed in eloquent, highly rhetorical Latin. Since their discovery in the late twentieth century, the Letters of Two Lovers have aroused much attention because of their extreme rarity. They constitute the longest correspondence by far between any two persons from the entire Middle A
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