The Flight of Starlings

Only a handful of great love stories are remembered down through the ages. Two generations ago, it would have been hard to find a reasonably educated person who did not know the tragic history of Abelard and Heloise, real-life characters who lived in twelfth-century France. Today most have never heard of them, although their story has been preserved for us in an exchange of letters between the two, which scholars agree are authentic. The Flight of Starlings retells the fascinating events of...