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Abelard: A Medieval Life

Name: Abelard: A Medieval Life
Author: M.T. Clanchy
ISBN: 9780631205029

by M.T. Clanchy

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Overview

The author introduces the reader to medieval life through the experience of Peter Abelard, master of the Paris schools, whose career included seducing his student Heloise, being castrated, being accused of treason, being condemned as a heretic (twice), and writing his "story of calamities". This first biography of Abelard in over 30 years includes the most recent research and is likely to become the standard work on its subject. 416 pp.

About the Author, M.T. Clanchy

M. T. Clanchy is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He taught at the University of Glasgow 1964-85. He is the author of From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307 (Blackwell second edition, 1993) and Abelard: A Medieval Life (Blackwell, 1997). He is the editor (with Betty Radice) of The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics, 2003).