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Abelard and Heloise (Hardcover, New)
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Abelard and Heloise (Hardcover, New)
Series: Great Medieval Thinkers
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Constant J. Mews offers an intellectual biography of two of the
best known personalities of the twelfth century. Peter Abelard was
a controversial logician at the cathedral school of Notre-Dame in
Paris when he first met Heloise, who was the brilliant and
outspoken niece of a cathedral canon and who was then engaged in
the study of philosophy. After an intense love affair and the birth
of a child, they married in secret in a bid to placate her uncle.
Nonetheless the vengeful canon Fulbert had Abelard castrated,
following which he became a monk at St. Denis, while Heloise became
a nun at Argenteuil. Mews, a recognized authority on Abelard's
writings, traces his evolution as a thinker from his earliest work
on dialectic (paying particular attention to his debt to Roscelin
of Compiegne and William of Champeaux) to his most mature
reflections on theology and ethics. Abelard's interest in the
doctrine of universals was one part of his broader philosophical
interest in language, theology, and ethics, says Mews. He argues
that Heloise played a significant role in broadening Abelard's
intellectual interests during the period 1115-17, as reflected in a
passionate correspondence in which the pair articulated and debated
the nature of their love. Mews believes that the sudden end of this
early relationship provoked Abelard to return to writing about
language with new depth, and to begin applying these concerns to
theology. Only after Abelard and Heloise resumed close epistolary
contact in the early 1130s, however, did Abelard start to develop
his thinking about sin and redemption--in ways that respond closely
to the concerns of Heloise. Mews emphasizes both continuity and
development in what these two very original thinkers had to say."
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