“Fellowships”. Institute of Historical Research. University of London, School of Advanced Study.
Peter Abelard
Standard Name: Abelard, Peter
Used Form: Petri Abaelardi
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death | Héloïse | Héloïse
died at the Paraclete Convent, where the body of her former lover, Peter Abelard
, had been buried twenty years before. Among scholars on Héloïse, Etienne Gilson
says that she died in 1164... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | In her first book of autobiography, HB
always calls Evans the man. Naomi Royde-Smith
thought him the most savage satirist since Swift
. HB
at once quarrelled with Leslie about him. The day after... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kate Clanchy | 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
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Petrarch | The famous beloved, Laura, whom he celebrates in his poetry, has not been identified. He says that he first saw her in a church in Avignon during Holy Week, 1327; Bergin, Thomas G. Petrarch. Twayne, 1970. 13, 42 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Héloïse | Héloïse
became the lover of Pierre or Peter Abelard
, who was the greatest living philosopher, and her private tutor. Waithe, Mary Ellen. “Heloise”. Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment Women Philosophers, A. D. 500-1600, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1989, pp. 67 -83. 67-8 Kamuf, Peggy. Fictions of Feminine Desire. University of Nebraska Press, 1982. 1-6 Radice, Betty. “The French Scholar-Lover: Héloïse”. Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, 1984, pp. 90 - 108. 91-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Héloïse | Peter Abelard
, theologian and former lover and husband of Héloïse
, was for the first time tried for the heresy of rationalism. Clanchy, M. T. Abelard: A Medieval Life. Blackwell, 1997. 204 |
Fictionalization | Héloïse | George Moore
published a novel on the ever-popular theme of Héloise
and Abelard. British Library Catalogue. |
Fictionalization | Héloïse | F.-N. Du Bois
published at the Hague what was probably the first of the many fictionalized accounts of Héloïse
's life: Histoire des amours et des infortunes d'Abélard
et d'Eloïse. Charrier, Charlotte. Héloïse. Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1933. 605 |
Instructor | Héloïse | According to M. T. Clanchy, she was known for her learning before the great theologian Peter Abelard
became her tutor; it was, in fact, greater than his own. Clanchy, M. T. Abelard: A Medieval Life. Blackwell, 1997. 12-13 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's reputation persisted for some time after her death. Mary Scott
praised her highly in The Female Advocate, 1774. John Duncombe
(though her posthumous publication was too late for inclusion in his Feminiad... |
Occupation | Héloïse | Héloïse
, urged to do so by Abelard
, took her vows as a nun at the convent of Sainte Marie of Argenteuil. Waithe, Mary Ellen. “Heloise”. Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment Women Philosophers, A. D. 500-1600, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1989, pp. 67 -83. 68 Kamuf, Peggy. Fictions of Feminine Desire. University of Nebraska Press, 1982. 6 Radice, Betty. “The French Scholar-Lover: Héloïse”. Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, 1984, pp. 90 - 108. 93-4 |
Occupation | Héloïse | Abelard
arranged for Héloïse
to become abbess of the Paraclete Convent near Troyes, founded by himself. Kamuf, Peggy. Fictions of Feminine Desire. University of Nebraska Press, 1982. 7 Radice, Betty. “The French Scholar-Lover: Héloïse”. Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, 1984, pp. 90 - 108. 93-4 |
politics | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | EWW
set out with conservative views on the Woman Question, though her early experience on a western farm meant that she took it for granted that women would be active and self-reliant. Her gender... |
Publishing | Antonia Fraser | She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter
and published in later 1976. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010. 62 |
Publishing | Anna Seward | AS
compiled a 7-page booklet, Memoirs of Abelard
and Eloisa, which was issued at Newcastle with other Abelard and Eloisa material. The British Library Catalogue lists AS
's contribution as part of a larger work. Seward, Anna, Alexander Pope, Peter Abelard, Héloïse, and Alexander Pope. “Memoirs of Abelard and Eloisa”. Letters of Abelard and Eloisa, translated by. John Hughes and John Hughes, J. Mitchell, 1805. title-page British Library Catalogue. |
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