✍ Scribed by Peter Abélard; Henry Adams Bellows
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In this classic of medieval literature, a brilliant and daring thinker relates the spellbinding story of his philosophical and spiritual enlightenment--and the tale of his tragic personal life as well. Peter Abelard paints an absorbing portrait of monastic and scholastic life in twelfth-century Paris, while also recounting the circumstances and consequences of one of history's most famous love stories--his doomed romance with Heloise.
Considered the founder of the University of Paris, Abelard was instrumental in promoting the use of the dialectical method in Western education. He regarded theology as the "handmaiden" of knowledge and believed that through reason, people could attain a greater knowledge of God. "By doubting," he declared, "we come to inquire, and by inquiry we arrive at truth." Abelard's tendency to leave questions open for discussion made him a target for frequent charges of heresy, and all his works were eventually included in the...
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