A re-telling of the true 12th century love story of Heloise and Abelard. Abelard is a great philosopher and theologian who has taken, like many academics of the time, a vow of celibacy. When he is hired as a tutor for the brilliant and beautiful Hel...
"It was Heloise who made the difference to me. Not just because she pushed [Abelard] to become the hero he was, but because she herself so heroically refused to live with illusions. All her railing against convention, and against the Church even - I see it now as being about the underlying truth she saw. I have come to my small version of that... She exposed the lie that I'd built my life on. Yet Heloise could denounce it - not against the Church, but within and for the Church." - James Carrol, The Cloister
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