Héloïse

Héloïse ( French: [e.lɔ.iz]; variously Héloïse d'Argenteuil, Héloïse du Paraclet; c. 1100–1? – 16 May 1163-4?) was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar, and abbess.

Héloïse was a renowned "woman of letters" and philosopher of love and friendship. She reached the level of nullius in 1147, achieving approximately the level of political rank and power as a bishop.

She is famous in history and popular culture for her love affair and correspondence with the famous medieval logician and theologian Peter Abelard, who became her colleague, collaborator, and husband, upon whom she had an important intellectual influence, and to whom she posed many questions such as those in the Problemata Heloissae.

Her surviving letters are considered a foundation of French and European literature and primary inspiration for the practice of courtly love. Her erudite and sometimes erotically charged correspondence is the Latin basis for the bildungsroman genre and serve alongside Abelard's Historia Calamitatum as a model of the classical epistolary genre. Her influence extends on later writers such as Chrétien de Troyes, Geoffrey Chaucer, Madame de Lafayette, Thomas Aquinas, Choderlos de Laclos, Voltaire, Rousseau, Simone Weil, and Dominique Aury.

She is an important figure in the establishment of women's representation in scholarship and is known for her controversial portrayals of gender and marriage which influenced the development of modern feminism.

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