Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard was born in Pallet, France on April 21st 1079. His father was in a military career solely Peter followed the academic path studying dialectic. Later in his teens he went to school in Paris called Notre-Dame de Paris, William of Champeaux taught him. after being taught for a date Peter began to question William and argue against him. It was Williams school where Abelards action of logic all began. At the young age of only xxii he set up his first school in Melun, he later moved his school to Corbeil, which was near Paris, for more direct competition. curtly after he moved his school his health suffered from over working. After his return he found William lecturing at a conventual retreat outside the city, and there they once again became rivals. Abelard was again victorious, and right away stood supreme to William. Abelard later set up a school on the heights of Montagne Sainte-Genevieve which over looked Notre-Dame. From his successes in dialect he next saturnine to theology and attended some lectures of Anselm at Laon. His triumph was complete the scholarly person was able to give lectures, without previous training or special study, which were declare superior to those of the master.Abelard was now at the height of his fame. He stepped into the chair at Notre-Dame, being too nominated canon, about the year 1115. After this crowds of thousands of students border 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 girl named Heloise. Abelard soon fell in love with her. He became a tutor to this girl and he used his power for the purpose of seduction. soon everyone 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 baby boy. Abelard proposed a secret marriage so tha t he did non 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 denomination despite his promise to Abelard to not say anything. Fulbert then became physically and verbally abusive towards.Abelard removed her secretly from him house and took her to seek refuge in the convent of Argenteuil. Immediately Fulbert, believing that Abelard had taken her away to be rid of her plot revenge. That night he and some others broke into Abelards chamber and emasculate him The priesthood and ecclesiastical byice 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 gradually 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 passkey had touched me fo r 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 true photosphere not of the world but of god. He soon print all of his theological lectures and that was when his advisories discovered his rationalistic interpretation of the Trinitarian dogma.This upset some(prenominal) people and he was forced to burn the book and he was also held captive in the convent of St.Medard at Soissons. He thought that this would be the lash experience that he would ever have to go through. One of the things that he did enjoy doing at convent was irritating the monks. He soon decided that feel in the monastery was unbearable so he was able to go and wait in a desert place until it was time for his persecution. He build himself a small cabin and he turned into a hermit. in brief after he moved to the desert students from Paris began to flock to him and he began teaching again. Fearing prosecution yet another persecution for teaching when he was not to be he found another refuge far off shore of lower Brittney. There among other thing he wrote his famous Historia Calamitatum. The pope lifted his sentence and he spent the remaining cardinal months of his life at Cluny, a sister-house of St. Marcel at Chalon, where he rest during his last sickness. The most important thing to always remember Abelard is his pedant manner of philosphisizing. Even though he got into trouble with the church and society, be quiet had a great impact on the medieval times and changed umpteen lives.