Peter Abelard

ray of light Abelard was born in P tot entirelyyet, France on April twenty-first 1079. His father was in a military career but shot followed the academic path studying dialectic. Later in his teens he went to naturalize in Paris called Notre-Dame de Paris, William of Champeaux taught him. After organism taught for a while Peter began to question William and argue against him. It was Williams school where Abelards application of system of logic all began. At the young age of only twenty-two he set up his first school in Melun, he later on moved his school to Corbeil, which was near Paris, for more direct competition.Soon later on he moved his school his health suffered from over proceeding. After his move over he found William lecturing at a monastic pull back outside the city, and there they once again became rivals. Abelard was again victorious, and now stood absolute to William. Abelard later set up a school on the senior high of Montagne Sainte-Genevieve which over look ed Notre-Dame. From his successes in dialect he next turned to immortal and attended some lectures of Anselm at Laon. His triumph was complete the pupil was sufficient to give lectures, without previous training or special study, which were acjazzledged superordinate to those of the master.Abelard was now at the height of his fame. He stepped into the chair at Notre-Dame, being also nominated canon, about the year 1115. After this crowds of thousands of students surrounded Abelard. During all this fame he encountered romance. Living with the precincts of Notre-Dame under the care of her uncle, Fulbert, he met a girlfriend named Heloise. Abelard in brief fell in love with her. He became a school to this girl and he used his power for the purpose of seduction. Soon perpetuallyyone seemed to know about this romance except for Fulbert and as soon as he found out they were separated.They now could only meet in secret. She soon became pregnant and at this time Abelard took her home to Brittney where she gave birth to a screw up boy. Abelard proposed a secret impairriage so that he did not mar his prospects of advancement in the church. Heloise opposed this idea but eventually gave in to pressure. Fulbert did not keep the secret of marriage and spread the word condescension his promise to Abelard to not say anything. Fulbert then became physically and verbally ignominious towards.Abelard removed her secretly from him house and took her to seek refuge in the convent of Argenteuil. directly Fulbert, believing that Abelard had taken her away to be rid of her plotted revenge. That night he and some others broke into Abelards chamber and castrated him The priesthood and ecclesiastic office were canonically closed to him. Heloise consummated her work of self-sacrifice and became a nun. This how ever only affected his work temporarily and. After he stepwise turned again to studying he reopened his school in the priory of Maisonceile.His work was effected, but only for the good, Abelard stated in the Historia, that the hand of the lord had touched(p) me for the express purpose of freeing me from the temptations of the flesh and the distractions of the world so that I could devote myself to learning and there by prove myself a unbowed photosphere not of the world but of god. He soon published all of his theological lectures and that was when his advisories discovered his rationalistic interpretation of the Trinitarian dogma.This upset many populate and he was forced to burn the book and he was also held jailed in the convent of St.Medard at Soissons. He thought that this would be the worst discover that he would ever have to go through. One of the things that he did fuck doing at convent was irritating the monks. He soon decided that look in the monastery was unbearable so he was able to go and live in a desert place until it was time for his persecution. He built himself a small cabin and he turned into a hermit. Soon after he mo ved to the desert students from Paris began to flock to him and he began direction again.Fearing prosecution yet another persecution for teaching when he was not to be he found another refuge far off margin of lower Brittney. There among other thing he wrote his famous Historia Calamitatum. The pope lifted his sentence and he spent the remaining eighteen months of his life at Cluny, a sister-house of St. Marcel at Chalon, where he rested during his put up sickness. The most important thing to always remember Abelard is his scholastic manner of philosphisizing. Even though he got into trouble with the church and society, still had a great impact on the medieval times and changed many lives.