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The tale of Heloise and Abelard - familiar to any scholar, or erudite lover or adulterer - is of a girl loving Europe's most famous theologian and thinker, and their inevitable overthrow. It is still in its way scandalous, inasmuch as many would still disapprove of an age gap of two decades between lovers, and in modern universities tutors are forbidden to so love their students - or vica versa - on penalty of dismissal, and Abelard's stature as a Christian thinker can only add emphasis. Waddell handles the story with great subtlety and control - often omitting or working round the crucial plot knots which only heightens the sense of a fated doom, inevitability.
Waddell also treats of Abelard's atonement theology, but fear not, all is integrated into the story and the indifferent thinker may easily ignore the theological depths. Waddell uses love - sacred and profane - as the linchpin of existence as (to my recollection) does Abelard in his atonement theology, in contradistinction to the classic Medieval line on the Crucifixion. Unexpectedly, it is this theological echo which makes this novel so powerfully human.
I didn't find her Heloise at all bloodless; in fact, quite the opposite. I was pleased that Waddell lets us see Heloise's brilliant intelligence and intellectual fervor. (Abelard fell in love with her mind as much as anything). It's a shame this book is out of print here in the States. For anyone with an interest in the story of Abelard and Heloise (or even for anyone who simply likes good prose and well-done fictionalized history), this is a book that sould not be missed. It's a lovely, sometimes stunning read.
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