Famous for their love affair and their letter exchange, Heloise, abbess of the Paraclete, and Abelard, monk and scholar, are less known for their on-going monastic relationship. Abelard's letters of direction to Heloise and her nuns were complemented by the liturgical music he composed for them. In this first study of Abelard as musician and spiritual director, the importance liturgical song has in forming the virtues of obedience, penitence, and humility is explained, as is Abelard's mastery of rhetoric, poetry and melody
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Famous for their love affair and their letter exchange, Heloise, abbess of the Paraclete, and Abelard, monk and scholar, are less known for their on-going monastic relationship. Abelard's letters of direction to Heloise and her nuns were complemented by the liturgical music he composed for them. In this first study of Abelard as musician and spiritual director, the importance liturgical song has in forming the virtues of obedience, penitence, and humility is explained, as is Abelard's mastery of rhetoric, poetry and melody
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Good with no dust jacket. 087907311X. Xxxvii, 346 pp. Index, bibliography, music glossary. Octavo. Library bound into hardcover, glossy white with medieval image of Abelard and Heloise in red. Spine label, interior has normal library marks but otherwise clean and unmarked. In English with some Latin (mostly translated in columns).; Volume 211; Ex-Library; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 384 pages.
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