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Peter Abelard

Born: 1079
Died: 1142

French philosopher, logician and theologian whose teaching at Paris made him the most celebrated master of the early twelfth century; his love for Heloise, his castration and his condemnations at Soissons and Sens are told in his autobiographical Historia Calamitatum.

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Historia Calamitatum

Abelard's autobiographical letter recounting his career as a dialectician in Paris, his love affair with Heloise and its violent end, the condemnation of his book on the Trinity at Soissons, and his troubles as abbot, written to console a friend.

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