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Ovid and the Female Voice in the "De Amore" and the "Letters" of Abelard and Heloise

Two twelfth-century Latin works about love, the De Amore of Andreas Capellanus and the Letters of Abelard and Heloise, seem on the surface incomparable. The De Amore offers a parodic, scholastic attack on love, driven by stylized dialogues of seduction and repulse, culminating in a virulent attack on male desire and on women. The correspondence of Abelard and Heloise, by contrast, offers a love story, an epistolary narrative of happiness achieved but then violently torn from the lovers, who are thrown into social scandal and spiritual chaos.' Despite such gross differences, we may call these two documents of amatory fiction medieval "arts of love," for they both reflect the tensions that arise when an author becomes a "medieval Ovid"