The Story of My Misfortune: The Autobiography of Peter Abelard

Name: The Story of My Misfortune: The Autobiography of Peter Abelard
Author: Peter Abelard
ISBN: 9781911535430

Author: Peter Abelard
Series: Christian Classics
Language: English
Length: 70 pages
ISBN: 9781911535430
Published: 25 September 2016
Imprint: Adelphi Press

Biography
Love
love letters
romance
romantic
humanity
divinity
divine
cosmology
Christianity

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Abelard tells his own wreck: the Paris schools, Heloise, the mutilation, the cloister. The Story of My Misfortune is twelfth-century autobiography as defence and prayer — brilliance, love, enemies, and a God who did not explain. A mind that would not be small, written from the far side of ruin. Heloise is not a footnote. The letter is pride, theology, and a body that remembers. Read it as a medieval mind refusing to call disaster anything but disaster.

Author

Peter Abelard was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. His affair with and love for Heloise d'Argenteuil has become legendary. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th Century. In philosophy, he is celebrated for his logical solution to the problem of universals via nominalism and conceptualism and his pioneering of intent in ethics.

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