I just finished reading James Carroll's new novel, The Cloister. I would recommend the book wholeheartedly. One thing did surprise me a little. A major theme of the novel was the relationship between ...

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ONCE more the melancholy history of Abelard and Heloise has inspired an author to retell their woes to a generation eight centuries removed. Again it comes to us in the form of a novel, set, though ...

Nine hundred years ago, a celebrity philosopher fell in love with his star student and seduced her. Peter Abelard’s once brilliant lectures grew tepid, while his love songs placed the name of Heloise ...

One wonders quite how Peter Abelard survived, after Heloise's uncle's men "cut off the parts of [his] body whereby [he] had committed the wrong of which they complained". That is, they cut off his ...

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When I was younger I read EVERYTHING about them; (especially Helen Waddell). I also have a record of some music ('O Quanta Qualia') allegedly composed by Abelard. When in Paris, I made a pilgramage to ...