Pierre (Abelard) Abélard (1079 - 1142)

Born 1079 in Le Pallet, France

Died 21 Apr 1142 at about age 63 in Chalon-sur-Saône, France

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Peter Abelard was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and logician. His affair with and love for Héloïse d'Argenteuil has become has become one of the most renowned love affairs in Medieval times. He was born around 1079 in Le Pallet, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Nantes, in Brittany, the eldest son of a minor noble Breton family.His father, a wealthy lord called Berengar, encouraged Pierre to study the liberal arts, wherein he excelled at the art of dialectic (a branch of philosophy), which, at that time, consisted chiefly of the logic of Aristotle transmitted through Latin channels. During his early academic pursuits, Abelard wandered throughout France, debating and learning. He first studied in the Loire area, where the nominalist Roscellinus of Compiègne, who had been accused of heresy by Anselm, was his teacher during this period.^[1]

Around 1100, Abelard's travels finally brought him to Paris. In the great cathedral school of Notre-Dame de Paris (before the current cathedral was actually built), he was taught for a while by William of Champeaux, the disciple of Anselm of Laon (not to be confused with Saint Anselm) a leading proponent of Realism.^[2]

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• Wikipedia article for Peter Abelard.

• http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Fl-Ka/H-lo-se.html

• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1041/Peter-Abelard

• Burge, James, Héloïse & Abélard: A New Biography , Harper-SanFrancisco, 2003.

1. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Abelard
2. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Abelard

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