M. T. Clanchy

But Abelard's biographer M. T. Clanchy believes she may have been about ten years older, which would make her nearer thirty than twenty at the time of her affair with Abelard, and around eighty at...

KC 's father, Michael Clanchy , is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the Institute for Historical Research , which is a part of the University of London . His published works include a biography...

Anna Seward 's Memoirs of Abelard and Eloisa, 1805, certainly ranks as scholarship, though it concerns itself more with reputation and afterlife than with the actual life or writings of Héloïse . From the...