An enthusiastic and daring thinker relates a spellbinding story of his philosophical and spiritual enlightenment — and the tale of his tragic personal life as well. Peter Abélard paints an absorbing portrait of monastic and scholastic life in 12th-century Paris and recounts one of history's most famous love stories, his doomed romance with Heloise.

Story of My Misfortunes

Politics & Social Sciences

Peter Abelard

Philosophy

The MacMillan Company

An edition with introduction, English translation, and notes by D. E. Luscombe.

Peter Abelard's Ethics : An Edition with Introduction, English Translation and Notes By D. E. Luscombe

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Clarendon Press

Excerpt from Letters of Abelard and Heloise And Abelard, tbc great leader and logician, bi: treati:e: are forgotten, bi: fame a: a pbiloeopber i: dead - only bi: love letter: live. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Classic Reprint)

Self-Help

Motivational

Forgotten Books

Abelard's major ethical writings--Ethics, or Know Yourself, and Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew and a Christian, are presented here in a student edition including cross-references, explanatory notes, a full table of references, bibliography, and index.

Ethical Writings: 'Ethics' and 'Dialogue Between a Philosopher, a Jew and a Christian'

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Latin literature The 12th to the 14th century...correspondence between Abelard and Héloïse reflects themes found in both verse collections. Abelard's autobiographical work, the Historia calamitatum (written c. 1136; The Story of Abelard's Adversities), recounts the story of his tragic love affair and its theological consequences.

The Story of Abelard's Adversities (Mediaval Sources in Translation)

History

Europe

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Peter Abelard's Letter to a Friend, frequently known as The Story of My Calamities, recounts the meteoric and disastrous career of one of the driving forces of the twelfth-century renaissance. The son of a minor Breton noble family, a public intellectual who turned the academic establishment on its head, lover of Heloise, and sometimes his own worst enemy, Abelard produced in elegant prose one of the signal works of medieval autobiography. This new edition presents the Latin text as it appears in the earliest manuscript--until recently misdated by a hundred years--studded with a commentary that explicates the circumstances of its composition, context, and language.

Historia calamitatum: Consolation to a Friend (Toronto Medieval Latin Texts)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

PIMS

Abelard and Heloise are nearly as famous a pair of tragic lovers as the fictional Romeo and Juliet, and their story (as revealed in "The Letters of Abelard and Heloise") remains one of the world's most dramatic and well-known love affairs. Their shared passion for knowledge, religious faith, and one another sealed their destiny. Abelard was a well-respected, 12th-century Parisian philosopher and teacher, and Heloise was his gifted young student. Through their impassioned writings unfolds the story of a romance, from its reckless, ecstatic beginnings to the public scandal, enforced secret marriage, and devastating consequences that followed. These eloquent and intimate "Letters of Abelard and Heloise" express a vast range of emotions from adoration and devotion to reproach, indignation, and grief, and offer a fascinating insight into religious life in the Middle Ages. Their ardor is unmistakable; as Abelard writes to his love, "So intense were the fires of lust which bound me to you that I set those wretched, obscene pleasures, which we blush even to name, above God as above myself..." When their hidden marriage could no longer withstand the challenges in its path, each lover sought refuge in the church--Abelard became a monk and Heloise an abbess. Their correspondence continued as both achieved success in their new careers but continued to struggle with their feelings for one another. "The Letters of Abelard and Heloise" powerfully articulate the wide range of emotions they experienced. So timeless is their love story that--after eight centuries--their passion, their devotion, and their struggle still resonate with readers.

The Letters Of Abelard And Heloise

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Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings

Héloïse

Stanley Lombardo

The Story of My Misfortunes

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