Peter Abelard

1079 - 1142 *

famous for his affair with Héloïse, Abelard was one of the leading thinkers of his era

ABELARD, PETER (1079-1142), scholastic philosopher, was born at Pallet (Palais), not far from Nantes, in 1079. He was the eldest son of a noble Breton house. The name Abaelardus (also written Abailardus, Abaielardus, and in many other ways) is said to be a corruption of Habelardus, substituted by himself for a nickname Bajolardus given to him when a student. As a boy, he showed an extraordinary quickness of apprehension, and, choosing a learned life instead of the knightly career natural to a youth of his birth, quickly became an adept in the art of dialectic, under which name philosophy, mean... [read entire biography]

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		Lecture Notes on Abelard -- These notes touch on aspects of Abelard's Ethics and Glosses on Porphyry. http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/x... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 105 1 users have rated it an average of 3 stars     [rate it] Historia Calamitatum -- Etext of Abelard's autobiographical letter, from the Medieval Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/abe... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 77 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it] Introduction to Abelard of Le Pallet -- A selection of interesting tidbits of information about Abelard, and a short biography. http://www.abelard.org/abelard/abel-hi.h... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 63 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it] Jacques Maritain Center - Abelard -- Biography of the writer and a list of his philosophical works. http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/e... Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 69 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it] The Engines of Our Ingenuity No. 583: Pierre Abelard -- A brief overview of Abelard's relationship with Heloise, from the transcript of a radio broadcast. http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi583.htm Editorial Rating: Number of Visitors: 79 0 users have rated it an average of 0 stars     [rate it]

     

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