Historia Calamitatum

Historia Calamitatum PDF Author: Peter Abelard
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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The 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. It is written in the form of a letter and highly influenced by Augustine of Hippo's Confessions. Peter Abelard was a pioneer of philosophy and university alike. The Historia Calimatatum provides readers with knowledge of his views of women, learning, monastic, life, Church and State combined, and the social milieu of the time.

Historia Calamitatum

Historia Calamitatum PDF Author: Peter Abelard
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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The 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. It is written in the form of a letter and highly influenced by Augustine of Hippo's Confessions. Peter Abelard was a pioneer of philosophy and university alike. The Historia Calimatatum provides readers with knowledge of his views of women, learning, monastic, life, Church and State combined, and the social milieu of the time.

The Story of My Misfortunes

The Story of My Misfortunes PDF Author: Peter Abelard
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Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Historia Calamitatum

Historia Calamitatum PDF Author: Peter Abelard
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The 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. It is written in the form of a letter and highly influenced by Augustine of Hippo's Confessions. Peter Abelard was a pioneer of philosophy and university alike. The Historia Calimatatum provides readers with knowledge of his views of women, learning, monastic, life, Church and State combined, and the social milieu of the time.

Historia Calamitatum

Historia Calamitatum PDF Author: Peter Abelard
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734068215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65

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Reproduction of the original: Historia Calamitatum by Peter Abelard

Historia Calamitatum

Historia Calamitatum PDF Author: Peter Abelard
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ISBN: 9781481909037
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was the preeminent philosopher of the twelfth century and perhaps the greatest logician of the middle ages. During his life he was equally famous as a poet and a composer, and might also have ranked as the preeminent theologian of his day had his ideas earned more converts and less condemnation. In all areas Abelard was brilliant, innovative, and controversial. He was a genius. He knew it, and made no apologies. His vast knowledge, wit, charm, and even arrogance drew a generation of Europe's finest minds to Paris to learn from him.Many of the misfortunes which the "Historia Calamitatum" relates were the direct outcome of Abélard's uncompromising position as a rationalist, and this important document is above all interesting for the picture it gives of Peter Abélard himself, against the background of early twelfth century France.The "Historia Calamitatum" was written while Abélard was still abbot of the monastery of St. Gildas, in Brittany. The terrors of his existence there are fully dwelt on in his autobiographical letter, and finally, in 1134 or 1135, he fled, living for a short time in retirement. In 1136, however, we find him once more lecturing, and apparently with much of his former success, on Mont Ste. Geneviève. His old enemies were still on his trail, and most of all Bernard of Clairvaux, to whose fiery adherence to the faith Abélard's rationalism seemed a sheer desecration. The unceasing activities of Bernard and others finally brought Abélard before an ecclesiastical council at Sens in 1140, where he was formally arraigned on charges of heresy. Had Abélard's courage held good, he might have won his case, for Bernard was frankly terrified at the prospect of meeting so formidable a dialectitian, but Abélard, broken in spirit by the prolonged persecution from which he had suffered, contented himself with appealing to the Pope. The indefatigable Bernard at once proceeded to secure a condemnation of Abélard from Rome, whither the accused man set out to plead his case. On the way, however, he collapsed, both physically and in spirit, and remained for a few months at the abbey of Cluny, whence his friends removed him, a dying man, to the priory of St. Marcel, near Châlons-sur-Saône. Here he died on April 21, 1142.

The Story of My Misfortunes

The Story of My Misfortunes PDF Author: Peter Abelard
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Category : Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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"Presents the immortal love story of Abélard and Héloise in the words of Abélard himself." -- Dust jacket.

The Story of Abelard's Adversities

The Story of Abelard's Adversities PDF Author: Peter Abelard
Publisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888442536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Historia Calamitatum

Historia Calamitatum PDF Author: Peter Ablard
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497366794
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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An excerpt from the INTRODUCTION: THE "Historia Calamitatum" of Peter Abélard is one of those human documents, out of the very heart of the Middle Ages, that illuminates by the glow of its ardour a shadowy period that has been made even more dusky and incomprehensible by unsympathetic commentators and the ill-digested matter of "source-books." Like the "Confessions" of St. Augustine it is an authentic revelation of personality and, like the latter, it seems to show how unchangeable is man, how consistent unto himself whether he is of the sixth century or the twelfth—or indeed of the twentieth century. "Evolution" may change the flora and fauna of the world, or modify its physical forms, but man is always the same and the unrolling of the centuries affects him not at all. If we can assume the vivid personality, the enormous intellectual power and the clear, keen mentality of Abélard and his contemporaries and immediate successors, there is no reason why "The Story of My Misfortunes" should not have been written within the last decade. They are large assumptions, for this is not a period in world history when the informing energy of life expresses itself through such qualities, whereas the twelfth century was of precisely this nature. The antecedent hundred years had seen the recovery from the barbarism that engulfed Western Europe after the fall of Rome, and the generation of those vital forces that for two centuries were to infuse society with a vigour almost unexampled in its potency and in the things it brought to pass. The parabolic curve that describes the trajectory of Mediaevalism was then emergent out of "chaos and old night" and Abélard and his opponent, St. Bernard, rode high on the mounting force in its swift and almost violent ascent….

Historia Calamitatum

Historia Calamitatum PDF Author: Peter Abélard
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ISBN: 9780849003059
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Ethical Writings

Ethical Writings PDF Author: Peter Abelard
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780872203235
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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Abelard's major ethical writings--Ethics, or Know Yourself, and Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew and a Christian, are presented here in a student edition including cross-references, explanatory notes, a full table of references, bibliography, and index.