Whether genuine or not, those letters are a good read, as a reading group at an ARLT Summer School found not long ago. The issue of their genuineness has surfaced again here: Medieval love letters ignite war of words in France
05 March 2005

PARIS: Two star-crossed medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, are again stirring passions in France as a literary controversy rages nearly 900 years after their affair.

At the heart of the drama is an obscure Latin text that some scholars say contains the long lost love letters written by the ill-fated pair. Others say the correspondence is fake.

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