William Levitan is Associate Professor of Classics, Grand Valley State University and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
This text has a tremendous advantage over the Penguin: its
introduction is geared to smart undergrads, its notes are precise
and helpful, and its translations are really readable. Plus the
book's design is eminently satisfying. This text exemplifies the
best combination of deep erudition and user/student-friendly
features. I will use it again. --Louise M. Bishop, Clark Honors
College, University of Oregon
Levitan's fresh translations administer a series of productive
shocks to the system. Nothing looks or sounds the same. . . . This
will be a marvelous teaching text, and it deserves to enliven the
syllabi of many, many courses. But it will also energize scholars.
--Carol Symes, University of Illinois, in The Medieval Review
This valuable translation of a major body of Medieval Latin prose
and verse with extensive scholarly notes and appendices stands out
for its comprehensive coverage of the Abelardian epistolary corpus.
It offers the Historia calamitatum, the seven letters (all
following the Muckle/McLaughlin edition and following their
counting), the Heloisae Problemata, the confession (both from PL
clxxviii), the letters of Peter the Venerable from and to Heloise
(from Constable's edition), and a selection of the songs and poems
(including the laments for the daughter of Jephtha and for Saul and
Jonathan). . . . Exactly what is needed for the general reader.
--Medium Aevum
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