Abelard writes back with some hints on how to run a convent. (Seven letters between them have come down to us across the centuries, and Héloïse’s are some of the brightest literary stars in ...

A detail of the tomb of famous French lovers Heloise and Abelard in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Photograph: ... and it wouldn’t let go of me until I had written the long poem, Tongues.

This winter, two new books, drawing on the recently discovered letters, retell the story. Abelard and Heloise is by Mews himself.Heloise and Abelard was written by documentary producer James Burge ...

N ine hundred years ago, a celebrity philosopher fell in love with his star student and seduced her. Peter Abelard’s once brilliant lectures grew tepid, while his love songs placed the name of Heloise ...

We see Abelard, poet and dialectician, yielding in his mature years to passion he should have known in youth; we see Heloise, a pure, studious child, wakened to womanhood in her love for the man ...