Peter Abélard - Youth

Pierre Abélard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard (1079–April 21, 1142) was a French scholastic philosopher. The story of his affair with his student, Héloïse has become legendary. Peter Abélard - Life. Peter Abélard - Youth. He was born in the little village of Pallet, about 10 miles east of Nantes, in Brittany, the eldest son of a noble Breton family. The name Abaelardus (also written Abailardus, Abaielardus, and in many other ways) is said to be a co ...

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Peter Abélard - Youth. He was born in the little village of Pallet, about 10 miles east of Nantes, in Brittany, the eldest son of a noble Breton family. The name Abaelardus (also written Abailardus, Abaielardus, and in many other ways) is said to be a corruption of Habélardus, substituted by Abélard himself for a nickname ('Bajolardus') given him when a student. As a boy, he learned quickly, and, choosing an academic life instead of the military career usual for one of his birth, acquired the art of dialectic, ...

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Abélard's own works remain the best sources for his life, especially his Historia Calamitatum, an autobiography, and the correspondence with Heloise. The literature on Abelard is extensive, but consists principally of monographs on different aspects of his philosophy. Charles de Remusat's Abelard (2 vols., 1845) remains an authority; it must be distinguished from his drama Abelard (1877), which is an attempt to give a picture of medieval life. McCabe's Life of Abelard is written closely from the sources. See also ...

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Peter Abélard, Peter Abélard - Life, Peter Abélard - Youth, Peter Abélard - Rise to fame, Peter Abélard - His love Héloïse, Peter Abélard - Later life, Peter Abélard - Reception, Peter Abélard - Philosophical work, Peter Abélard - Bibliography, Peter Abélard - Works, Peter Abélard - Popular culture

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