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Peter Abelard
Standard Name: Abelard, Peter
Used Form: Petri Abaelardi
Connections
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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... |
Textual Production | Helen Waddell | Helen Waddell
published a historical novel entitled Peter Abelard (in which, naturally, Heloise
is also an important figure). Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. |
Textual Production | Helen Waddell | HW
never completed the work with which she hoped to crown her career as a scholar, a study of John of Salisbury
(who lived in the twelfth century and was a pupil of Abelard
... |
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... |
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 et al. “Memoirs of Abelard and Eloisa”. Letters of Abelard and Eloisa, translated by. John Hughes and John Hughes, J. Mitchell. title-page British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Features | Sally Purcell | On a Cenotaph quotes a phrase from Baudelaire
's poem Lesbos: the shocking juxtaposition of a dead body with adoration in le cadavre adoré di Sapho
. Though SP
supplied notes to some things... |
Textual Production | Alexander Pope | |
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. 13, 42 |
Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Abelard
to Eloisa, an epistolary reply written in 1720 by Judith Cowper (who by now was Judith Madan)
to Pope
's Eloisa to Abelard, was published in William Pattison
's posthumous works. The... |
Textual Features | Hildegarde of Bingen | Although the first version of the Symphonia, a poetic cycle that praises God, Mary, and certain saints, was completed in 1158, HB continued to add poems to it until her death. Newman, Barbara. “Poet: ’Where the Living Majesty Utters Mysteries’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, pp. 176-92. 182-3 |
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, pp. 67-83. 67-8 Kamuf, Peggy. Fictions of Feminine Desire. University of Nebraska Press. 1-6 Radice, Betty. “The French Scholar-Lover: Héloïse”. Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, pp. 90-108. 91-2 |
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, pp. 67-83. 68 Kamuf, Peggy. Fictions of Feminine Desire. University of Nebraska Press. 6 Radice, Betty. “The French Scholar-Lover: Héloïse”. Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, pp. 90-108. 93-4 |
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. 204 |
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. 7 Radice, Betty. “The French Scholar-Lover: Héloïse”. Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, pp. 90-108. 93-4 |
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... |
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Texts
Abelard, Peter, and Héloïse. “Editorial Materials”. The Letters of Abelard and Héloïse, translated by. Betty Radice, Penguin, 1974.
Abelard, Peter, and Héloïse. Letters of Abelard and Heloise. Translator Hughes, John, J. Watts, 1713.
Seward, Anna et al. “Memoirs of Abelard and Eloisa”. Letters of Abelard and Eloisa, translated by. John Hughes and John Hughes, J. Mitchell, 1805.
Abelard, Peter et al. Petri Abaelardi, Sancti Gildasii in Britannia abbatis, et Heloisae coniugis eius, quae postmodum prima coenobii paraclitensis abbatissa fuit, Opera. Editor Du Chesne, André, Nicolai Buon, 1616.