Written as a letter of consolation to a friend, this is Peter Abelard’s account of his life: his Breton birth, his brilliant career in the schools of Paris and his quarrels with his teachers William of Champeaux and Anselm of Laon, his love affair with Heloise and its terrible consequences, and the councils that condemned his books.
One of the great autobiographies of the Middle Ages, as personal as Augustine’s Confessions. Download the free EPUB.