User talk:Louandabe

May 2014
Hello, I'm Microchip08. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made with this edit to Wikipedia:Meetup/MedievalFeminist, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. μc8 (talk) 18:29, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry; this was a mistake. μc8 (talk) 18:30, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Héloïse
Hi, I had some questions about the two of the edits you marked as minor to the Héloïse article ("at Abelard's insistence and much against her own wishes" in the last par. of Historical events and "But there is an underlying tenor of despair on Heloise's part. She reminds him that she did not want to marry him, that she preferred to be his whore rather than his wife, preferring freedom to chains." under Correspondence). Especially in the first case, it seems like a useful addition to point out that Héloïse came reluctantly to religious life. However, my understanding is that there has been a scholarly re-evaluation of her life as a nun, the point of which is essentially that too much emphasis on her reluctance obscured the significance of her involvement in monastic reform circles, her concern with liturgical authenticity, and her status as an independent intellectual figure generally (for example, see Constant Mews, "Heloise and liturgical experience at the Paraclete," Plainsong and Medieval Music 11, no. 1 (2002), 25-35 10.1017/S0961137102002024). I was a bit concerned that the edit under Correspondence, especially, could give readers the wrong impression about these issues. Either way, though, it seemed like the edits are a matter of substance, and probably not minor. LiberalArtist (talk) 20:49, 8 May 2014 (UTC)