Have you read Joan Ferrante, "The Education of Women in the Middle Ages, theory, Fact and Fantasy," in *Beyond their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past" ed. Patricia H. Labalm, New York: 1984? I imagine that there has been more recent and useful stuff than this -- it is, after all more than 15 years old and this should be a topic of current interest, but Ferrante does discuss Heloise at some length. cecilia %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%