HUMA 1125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Paraclete, Barbara Newman, Wicket-Keeper
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Wk 5 abelard and heloise letters november 28, 2016. Tc on scripts: ours and theirs. handy notion. Trump on the bus, trump stepping off the bus. from man sleaze to sleazy flirtatious charm. : varieties of reading, allegory among them: as for romance wk 5 abelard and heloise letters november 28, 2016. Prelim: readings from the most passionate letters from the past. But the heloises and abelard were full of spunk and fun to hear: benton vs. newman: a disputatio between two fine medieval scholars. John benton his thesis: abelard wrote all the letters. He invented the heloise we pine for. not to sneeze at: prof. schneider, medievalist, likes this arg. I will first give the history of his argument and then step in as his protagonist. 1972: benton argued that the calamities were a forgery of the 12 c, and the letters were a forgery of the 13c.