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Unknown Binding: 211 pages
Publisher: Constable (1946)
Language English
ASIN: B0007JKR2U

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful retelling of the Abelard and Heloise story., 10 Nov 1999

By	kirstie.blair@st-annes.ox.ac.uk (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peter Abelard: A Novel (Fiction - general) (Paperback)

I first read this book as a child and it has remained one of my favourites. For all diehard romantics and scholars the story of Abelard and Heloise has to be one of the greatest tales ever. Helen Waddell's scholarship brings the world of the 12th century alive: her characters are believable and tragic and the story builds up to the terrible climax of Abelard's castration. Parts of this book - the Latin fragments of poetry, Abelard's great speeches, the comments on love and loss - will always haunt me. A classic.

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5.0 out of 5 stars atonement theology and fornication, 4 Aug 2004

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As is my suspicious way i read this expecting a limp narrative hung on Waddell's formidable erudition. As is so often the case i was proved wrong and a fool. This slim novel needs make no apology for itself - if i hadn't known, i'd have thought it the work of an accomplished novelist, rather than the fictive excursion of a Medieval scholar.

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.

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