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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795329803321

Autore

Schnell Rüdiger

Titolo

Epistolae Duorum Amantium : Parodien - Auf ein Berühmtes Liebespaar? / / Rüdiger Schnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9789004498167

9789004471900

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (640 pages)

Collana

Mittellateinische Studien und Texte Series ; ; Volume 55

Disciplina

371.320973

Soggetti

Love-letters - History

Parody in literature

Philosophers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

For 20 years medievalists have been debating whether these love letters have been written by Abelard and Heloise. The present study comes to a surprising result. The famous lovers are ridiculed in and by these letters. On the one hand the male writer appears to be a show-off, a macho, while on the other hand he emerges as a 'crybaby' who humiliates himself to secure the object of his desire. The female writer is stylized as the epitome of ideal love, but above all, she hopes for sexual pleasure. However, her desire is cleverly concealed by the borrowing from religious vocabulary in the letters.