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Héloïse (1101 - 1164)

Short name Héloïse
VIAF
First name Héloïse
Birth name
Married name
Date of birth 1101
Date of death 1164
Flourishing -
Sex Female
Place of birth Paris
Place of death France
Lived in France
Place of residence notes
Mother
Father
Children
Religion / ideology Catholic
Education Convent education, Educated at home
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Héloïse was ...
Profession(s)
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Place(s) of Residence France
Author of
receptions circulations
*Heloïse's letters to Abelard (1135) 6 0
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Circulations of Héloïse, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Héloïse, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

Title Author Date Type
*Mention in Histoire littéraire des femmes La Porte, Joseph de 1769 is biography of
*Mention in Kéralio's Collection des meilleurs ouvrages françois Kéralio, Louise-Félicité Guinement de 1786 is biography of
*Mention in Histoire des femmes écrivains de la France Henri Carton 1886 is biography of

Mentioned in:
- La Porte 1769 I, 1-31
- Boudier de Villemert 1779
- Riballier-Cosson 1779
- Briquet 1804
- Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886, ch. II
- Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 606.
- Christiane P. Makward et Madeleine Cottenet-Hage, Dictionnaire littéraire des femmes de langue française. De Marie de France à Marie Ndiaye, Paris, Kerthala, 1996.
- Jane Stevenson, Women Latin Poets. Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century, Oxford, University Press, 2005.
- Smith, Bonnie G. (2008). The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history, Volume 1. "Heloise", Oxford University Press. p. 445.
Cf.
- Pascale Bourgain, "Héloïse", Abélard en Son Temps, Actes du Colloque International Organisé a L'Occasion du 9e Centenaire de la Naissance de Pierre Abélard (14-19 Mai 1979), Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1981, pp. 211-237.
- Constant Mews, The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard. Perceptions of Dialogue in twelfth-Century France, New York, St. Martins Press, 1999.
- Georges Duby, Dames du XIIe siècle, Vol. I, Gallimard, 1995.

NOT MENTIONED IN:
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992