The Greatest Love Story of All Time? Heloise and Abelard

Harvard FAS

Ever yearn to travel back in time? Heloise and Peter Abelard, woman and man, student and teacher, nun and monk, embody much that is fascinating about the twelfth century and what subsequent ones, including ours, have made of it. The seminar adventures into letters written by the two, together with adaptations of their lives, from the Middle Ages to the present, into poems, novels, plays, films, and artworks. Along the way, we delve into similarities and differences between handwritten…