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The Repentant Abelard - Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's Carmen ad Astralabium and Planctus (Hardcover)
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The Repentant Abelard - Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's Carmen ad Astralabium and Planctus (Hardcover)
Series: The New Middle Ages
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Abelard was one of the greatest thinkers of the twelfth century, a man of towering brilliance and arrogance, but his poetic works written late in life for his wife Heloise and son Astrolabe reveal a different and more humble man. In the Planctus and the Carmen ad Astralabium we see a man newly coming to terms with the life around him, expressing a simple but heartfelt piety, raging against social injustices and the exploitation of the poor, and re-evaluating the importance of rhetoric and education. Most significantly, we find a man struggling to comprehend, through poems written to the wife and child he abandoned, the divine mysteries of love, relationships and family.
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