Can the Letters of Two Lovers be the previously lost love letters of Abelard and Heloise? Making Love in the Twelfth Century presents a new literary translation of the collection, along with a full commentary and two extended essays that parse its literary and intellectual contexts and chart the course of the doomed affair.

Preface
Prolegomena
—Making Love in the Twelfth Century: An Essay in the History of Emotions
—Abelard and Heloise? Some Frequently Asked Questions
Translations and Commentary
—Letters of Two Lovers
—Love Letters from Tegernsee
—From the Regensburg Songs
—"To a Fugitive Lover"
Appendices
A. Keywords
B. Citations, Allusions, and Parallels
C. Salutation Types
D. Word Frequencies
E. Cursus and Rhymed Prose
F. Distinctive Features and Motifs
G. Abelard, Heloise, and the Paraclete
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Barbara Newman is John Evans Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Northwestern University. She is author and editor of many books, including God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages, winner of the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America, and From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature. Both are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.