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A Woman's Thought or a Man's Discipline? The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Andrea Nye
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Abstract

This paper is part of a larger project of recovering the work of women thinkers. Heloise has traditionally been read as either a foil of Abelard or his intellectual appendage. In this paper, I present her views on love, religious devotion, and language as an alternative to philosophic method as it is conceived by Abelard.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Summer 1992 , pp. 1 - 22
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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