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Abelard, Peter
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Abelard, Peter (1079–1142), a native of Brittany, a brilliant disputant and lecturer at the schools of Ste Geneviève and Notre-Dame in Paris, where
John of Salisbury was among his pupils. He was an advocate of rational theological enquiry, and his
Sic et Non could be regarded as the first text in scholastic theology (see
Scholasticism). He was primarily a dialectician rather than a theologian, though his theological views were declared heretical by the Council of Sens (1142) where he was vigorously opposed by St
Bernard. He fell in love with Héloïse, the niece of Fulbert, a canon of Notre-Dame in whose house he lodged; she was a woman of learning and Abelard's pupil. Their love ended in a tragic separation and a famous correspondence. Pope's poem ‘
Eloisa to Abelard’ was published in 1717.
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The Philosophy of Peter Abelard.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...MARENBON, John. The Philosophy of Peter Abelard. New York: Cambridge University...contends that in treating Peter Abelard as a critic and logician only...the originality of thought which Abelard brought to the questions of his...
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Jan M. Ziolkowski, Letters of Peter Abelard: Beyond the Personal.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2008; 553 words
; Jan M. Ziolkowski, Letters of Peter Abelard: Beyond the Personal, Medieval...knows the 'personal' letters of Abelard and Heloise: the long-standing...What are much less well known are Abelard's less personal letters (numbered...
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Debitum obedientie: Heloise and Abelard on governance at the Paraclete.(Peter Abelard)
Magazine article from: Parergon; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...request for a suitable rule (Letter 6), Abelard's response (Letter 8), and Heloise...Nostrae. In these texts, Heloise and Abelard pondered the bases from which they perceived...Benedictine Rule. In a letter she wrote to Abelard sometime between 1132 and 1135, she criticized...
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Abelard and Heloise.(a letter from Abbot Peter the Venerable)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 9/17/1999; ; 562 words
; ...most moving is the letter that Peter the Venerable wrote to Heloise...the monk and scholar Peter Abelard. Heloise had been the most...arrogant) Parisian scholar Abelard. They had had a passionate...forced to take the habit. When Abelard died, Abbot Peter the Venerable...
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Abelard's theory of relations: reductionism and the Aristotelian tradition. (Aristotle, Peter Abelard)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...what follows I focus on the work of Peter Abelard (1079-1142), an influential...4) Like other Aristotelians, Abelard accepts the view that relations...Socrates. Indeed, according to Abelard, the relation between Simmias and...
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ABELARD: A MEDIEVAL LIFE.(Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ABELARD: A MEDIEVAL LIFE. By M. T. Clanchy...Clanchy's intellectual biography of Peter Abelard "aims to bring harmony out of dissonance...task, of course, given the fact that Abelard was one of the most controversial and...
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ABELARD AND HELOISE: A LOVE STORY FOR THE MILLENNIUM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/6/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...still moves. Here is the story of Abelard and Heloise. The city is Paris...among this community of geniuses is Peter Abelard. He is 40, a philosopher who draws...and our age begins -- with Abelard's insistence that human reason...
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BOREALIS' `ABELARD AND HELOISE' IS A HIT, NOT A HOMER
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 11/12/1998; 700+ words
; ...revolves around the scholar and poet Peter Abelard (Jeffrey Baumgartner), who was...Lee Patterson). That the older Abelard would become attracted to a young...intelligence nearly on par with Abelard. Indeed, in the context of the...
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'Ut sexu sic animo': the resolution of sex and gender in the Planctus of Abelard.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...theologian, and dialectician Peter Abelard are the six planctus, or laments...eloquence and originality, (1) Abelard takes familiar figures and their...sex and human sexuality present in Abelard's theological writings, and from...
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Gaspar, G. E. M. and H. Kohlenberger, eds, Anselm and Abelard: Investigations and Juxtapositions.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parergon; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Kohlenberger, eds, Anselm and Abelard: Investigations and Juxtapositions...of Canterbury (1033-1109) and Peter Abelard (c.1079-1142) and the wider...by the solitude of the cloister. Abelard's writings, on the other hand...
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Peter Abelard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Peter Abelard , Fr. Pierre Abélard , 1079-1142, French...work formed the basis for the widely read Sentences of Peter Lombard , who may have been Abelard's pupil. Abelard was perhaps most important as a teacher; among his...
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Abelard, Peter
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Abelard, Peter (1079–1142) French scholar, theologian, and...Fulbert, a canon of Notre-Dame. At Fulbert's instigation Abelard was subsequently castrated. Abelard then entered a monastery and made Héloï...
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Abelard
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Abelard and Héloïse a type of doomed lovers. Peter Abelard (1079–1142), a French scholar...his pupil Héloïse. Abelard was castrated at her uncle's instigation...
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Peter Lombard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Peter Lombard The Italian theologian Peter Lombard (ca. 1095-1160) wrote...European universities for 400 years. Peter Lombard was born at Lumellogno in...xE8; ve the lectures of Peter Abelard, a long-standing enemy of Lutolph...
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Peter the Venerable
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Peter the Venerable (1092/4...prayer and manual work. In 1130 Peter supported Innocent II against...and in 1140 he gave shelter to Abelard . He had the Koran translated...works include treatises against Peter de Bruys and against the Jews...
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