CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Note on the Texts

Suggestions for Further Resources

Map of Northern France in the Time of Abelard and Heloise

Chronology

The Calamities of Peter Abelard

Letters of Abelard and Heloise

First Letter: Heloise to Abelard

Second Letter: Abelard to Heloise

Third Letter: Heloise to Abelard

Fourth Letter: Abelard to Heloise

Fifth Letter: Heloise to Abelard

Sixth Letter: Abelard to Heloise

Seventh Letter: Abelard to Heloise

The Questions of Heloise: Introductory Letter

Abelard’s Confession of Faith

Letters of Heloise and Peter the Venerable

Peter to Heloise

Heloise to Peter

Peter to Heloise

Selected Songs and Poems of Peter Abelard

Dull Is the Star

Hymn for Saturday Vespers: How Great the Sabbath

Hymn for the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

Hymn for the Night Office and Vespers

Lament of the Virgins of Israel for the Daughter of Jephtha

Lament of David for Saul and Jonathan

Open Wide Your Eyes:
A Shaped Poem on the Incarnation of the Word

To Astralabe, My Son

Appendix A: From “The Letter to Philintus”

Appendix B: From The Letters of Two Lovers

Works Cited and Select Bibliography

Index of Passages Quoted, Cited, and Discussed

General Index