Abelard
A Medieval Life
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Word Count
108,000 words, Guess
Page Count
432 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveabelardmedievall0000clan
- ISBN-100631214445
- ISBN-139780631214441
- LibraryThing8934
- Goodreads694913
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number00269796
- Better World Books9780631214441
- Better World BooksW6-CNH-554
- Open LibraryOL7609943M
Classifications
- LCCBX4705.A2 C57 1999b
- DDC189/.4
- DDCB
and 1 more
- LCCBX4705.A2 C57 1999
Description
Introduces the reader to medieval life through the experience of Peter Abelard, the master of the Paris schools whose career included seducing Heloise (his student), and being castrated, accused of treason, condemned as a heretic (twice) as well as writing his memoirs -- his 'story of calamities'. Because Abelard touched so many aspects of life, this book is structured naturally around the roles he played. The author describes in vivid and concrete terms what is meant in the twelfth century to be a famous scientist (the master of Latin, logic and philosophy), then a dedicated monk and pioneer of the discipline of theology -- and yet one who was at various times a wandering scholar, courtier and jester. The author's many new findings include the discovery that it was Heloise who inspired many of Abelard's most profound ideas. She educated him: up to now historians have assumed it to be the other way round.
First Sentence
Peter Abelard, now forgotten, was once the most famous man in the world.
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