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Heloise & Abelard

keep all their focus on philosophy. As she writes “God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself; I wanted simply you, nothing of yours. I looked for no marriage-bond, no marriage portion, and it was not my own pleasures and wishes I sought to gratify, as you well know, but yours. The name of wife may seem more sacred or more binding, but sweeter for me will always be the word mistress, or, if you will permit me, that of concubine or whore. I believed the more I humbled myself…the less danger I should do to the brightness of your reputation” (Radice 113).

We see the same pro-stance for a personal or individualistic interpretation of Christine do

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