LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS
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Question
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What is the authorship controversy as it relates to Heloise and Abelard?
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the critical debate about the verification of events in the letters
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the idea that Abelard wrote all of the letters
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the issue of whether there is a “female voice” in the letters
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All of the Above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -1143) had distinguished careers in the medieval Church, they are best known for their intense and dramatic love affair. The events of that affair are recorded in a series of letters they wrote between 1130 and 1134 in which they recount the course of a relationship that occurred more than a decade earlier.
Detailed explanation-2: -Astrolabe, son of Abelard and Heloise Their son was thus brought up by Abelard’s sister, Denise, at Abelard’s childhood home in Le Pallet. His name derives from the astrolabe, a Persian astronomical instrument said to elegantly model the universe and which was popularized in France by Adelard.
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