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Abelard's Love/Abaelards Liebe by Jean M. Snook, Luise Rinser (1998, Hardcover) 
Abelard's Love/Abaelards Liebe by Jean M. Snook, Luise Rinser (1998, Hardcover)

 
Abelard's Love/Abaelards Liebe by Jean M. Snook, Luise Rinser (1998, Hardcover)

Author: Jean M. Snook, Luise Rinser
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Publication Date: 1998-02-01
Series: European Women Writers Series
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0803239149
ISBN-13: 9780803239142
Product ID: EPID173767
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Publication Date:1998-02-01
Series:European Women Writers Series

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Length:154 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:6.5 in
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Weight:13.6 oz

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Who hasn't heard of the star-crossed lovers Heloise and Abelard? In this novel Rinser, a prominent German author who was the Green Party's presidential candidate in 1984, presents a very subjective view of the pair via their son, Astrolabe, who was lost to history. Raised in Brittany, Astrolabe always wondered about his fancy Latin name. He finally discovers that it refers not to a saint but to an astronomical instrument used to determine the position of the stars. Astrolabe must make some determinations of his own after his father's death. Like most children who delve into their parentage, Astrolabe discovers both good and bad. Why, since his parents had married, did they choose not to live together and raise him? Why had his father insisted that his mother become a nun? Was his mother as submissive to Abelard as she seemed, or did she decide Astrolabe's fate by refusing to live with Abelard because it would ruin his career as a canon and teacher? Astrolabe becomes a canon, too, one forbidden to marry. Can anyone in his position understand the demands of the flesh? Although set in medieval Europe, this story has many modern parallels. To Astrolabe, the admonition "Know thyself" means to "delv[e] into one's own depths," and his journey toward the truth is well rendered here. Recommended for academic libraries. Doris Lynch, Monroe Cty. P.L., Bloomington, IN
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