Love

Heloise and Abelard - Since the 12th century writers artists and musicians have been inspired by the details of their story-famous philosopher and his pupil forbidden love affair abandoned son castration monastic life and heresy trials. In this remarkable collection Judith Infante gives us a series of poems that form a verse novel about the medieval lovers. The poems make clear how bound was their relationship to its period yet capture the intensity of their timeless and conflicting emotions.