... the Middle Ages and occurs in the middle of this movement. Peter Abelard was one of the greatest logicians and philosophers of the twelfth century renaissance and is widely known today because of his autobiographical Historia Calamitatum and the exchange of letters that followed between him and his young student Heloise who later became his lover, wife and sister in religion. Abelard and Heloise reveal much about themselves and the culture of the twelfth century through their writings. Theirs is a story about passion, faith, heresy, brutality and intellectual brilliance and through it was can question medieval attitudes to sex, gender, marriage as well as faith and learning. Peter Abelard (1070-1142) was one of the great wandering scholars of the twelfth century. 'The son of a Breton nobleman, Abelard, showed his intellectual promise early in his life and even before he finished his elementary studies was already challenging his teachers'.3 Abelard ...

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