Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on the Edited Texts
- List of Abbreviations
- Section I Introduction: The Art of the Love Letter
- Section II Fictional and Instructional Models
- Section III Actual Letters (Drafts, Copies, Missives)
- Text 4 The Norfolk Letters: The Abbot to the Nun
- Text 5 Oxford, Corpus Christi, MS 154: Love Letter from a Woman
- Text 6 The Armburgh Love Letters
- Text 7 Pierre de Hagenbach and the Canoness at Remiremont
- The Council of Remiremont
- Conrad Pfettisheim’s Account of Pierre de Hagenbach
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Text 4 - The Norfolk Letters: The Abbot to the Nun
from Section III - Actual Letters (Drafts, Copies, Missives)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on the Edited Texts
- List of Abbreviations
- Section I Introduction: The Art of the Love Letter
- Section II Fictional and Instructional Models
- Section III Actual Letters (Drafts, Copies, Missives)
- Text 4 The Norfolk Letters: The Abbot to the Nun
- Text 5 Oxford, Corpus Christi, MS 154: Love Letter from a Woman
- Text 6 The Armburgh Love Letters
- Text 7 Pierre de Hagenbach and the Canoness at Remiremont
- The Council of Remiremont
- Conrad Pfettisheim’s Account of Pierre de Hagenbach
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Edition and translation of draft love letters (in Anglo-Norman verse) from an abbot in Norfolk to a nun; discussion of the sexual morals of contemporary clerics and possible identity of the abbot
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- Medieval Love LettersA Critical Anthology, pp. 241 - 279Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024