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“pierre abelard”

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  • Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

    by Pierre Abélard, Héloïse ...
    The story of the relationship between Abélard and Héloïse, one of the world’s most celebrated and tragic love affairs.Peter Abelard (1079 – 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian, and preeminent logician.His love for, and affair with, Héloïse d'Argenteuil has become legendary.Héloïse (1090 - 1164) was a French nun, writer, scholar, and abbess, best known for her love ... Read more

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  • The Story of My Misfortunes

    by Pierre Abélard ...
    The Story of My Misfortunes, also known as Historia Calamitatum (A history of my calamities), is an autobiographical work by Peter Abelard, one of medieval France's most important intellectuals and a pioneer of scholastic philosophy. The Story of My Misfortunes is one of the first autobiographical works in medieval Western Europe, written in the form of a letter. ... Read more

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  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise

    by Pierre Abelard ...
    Pierre Abélard (1079-1142) was a medieval French philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his affair with and love for Héloïse has become legendary. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th Century." Héloïse was well versed in classical letters, which extended beyond Latin to Greek and Hebrew. Abélard sought ... Read more

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    The Story Of My Misfortunes Or: Historia Calamitatum (Unabridged)

    by PIERRE ABÉLARD ...
    Narrated by Inge Jennins ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 32 min

    Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course does the very concept of Self. Peter Abelard, the medieval philosopher and composer, here gives a concise but vivid survey of his notoriously calamitous life. The work is couched in the form of a letter to an afflicted friend. Abelard's abrasively ... Read more

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    The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Unabridged)

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    by PIERRE ABÉLARD ...
    Narrated by Armando Ray, John Cassell, Joseph Pfifer, Robyn Morton ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 34 min

    Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. At age 19, and living under her uncle Fulbert's roof, Heloise fell in love with Abelard, who she was studying under. Not only did they have a clandestine affair of a sexual nature, they had a child, Astrolabe, out of wedlock. Discovered by the Fulbert (who was ... Read more

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    The Worlds Best Orations, Volume 1 (Unabridged)

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    by PIERRE ABÉLARD ...
    Narrated by Antonio Santucci, Bonita Watson, Patty Perry, Katherine Mckenna ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 7 min

    Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel! Do we not all feel the magic of the power, and when occasionally we are permitted to listen to a great orator how completely we lose ourselves and yield in willing submission to the imperious and impetuous flow of his speech! We have not confined ... Read more

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  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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  • The Crown Ain't Worth Much

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