In the canon
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Peter Abelard
- Form
- Form Letters
- Year
- Year 1132
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 300
During Mass, when prayers should be purest, the abbess of the Paraclete finds her mind full not of God but of the remembered pleasures of the man she loved, and she writes it down and sends it to him. Peter Abelard was the sharpest logician in Paris, Heloise the most learned woman in Europe, and their affair ended when her uncle sent men into his room at night to castrate him.
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