Essays Tagged: "Abelard"

Peter Abelard's Heloise: On being a woman in Europe's Middle Ages.

impact this world had on women as well as the role women made in shaping their social status.Peter Abelard (1079-1142), a French philosopher and theologian, was an early exponent of scholasticism. Af ... e young niece of Canon Fulbert of Notre-Dame. Castrated by order of Fulbert and publicly disgraced, Abelard became a Benedictine monk. He continued to devote his vast energies to theological studies a ...

(6 pages) 158 2 4.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Who was Heloise?

Heloise was nearly as well known in Paris as Abelard was. She was renowned for her learning, which was exceptional in a woman in twelfth-century ... ning, which was exceptional in a woman in twelfth-century France. She was only sixteen when she met Abelard, but she had already mastered the traditional liberal arts of grammar, rhetoric, arithmetic, ... ronomy, as well as theology. She attended some of his lectures at the cathedral. Before long, Peter Abelard finally fell in love with something besides dialectic. Her uncle, Fulbert, hired him to teac ...

(8 pages) 44 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Abelard and Heloise

categorizes sinners and places them where they belong for eternity. Dante, however, did not mention Abelard or Heloise in his entire Divine Comedy. Abelard and Heloise are the famous couple from the t ... uple from the twelfth century who had an affair and then committed their lives to the church. Peter Abelard was well-educated, a respected philosopher, and became a prominent theologian. Heloise was a ...

(9 pages) 45 0 4.2 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

To what extent was there a "new consciousness of self" in the twelfth century?

e was a growing movement for students to flock to a master who could instruct and teach them. Peter Abelard did this himself, attending for example the school of Anselm at Laon. He found it to his dis ... lock to the master that they wanted to study under. Among the most popular masters, including Peter Abelard, were those who placed a growing emphasis upon the art of dialectic. Dialectic forced studen ...

(9 pages) 77 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Romance of Abelard and Heloise

nal aspects in marriage, and not only legal and religious views in the marital relationships. Peter Abelard was one of the greatest logicians and philosophers of the twelfth-century renaissance. Widel ... owed between him and his young student, Heloise, who became his lover, wife and sister in religion. Abelard focuses on the nature of human and divine love in his writings; also, he shows us problems i ...

(8 pages) 50 0 4.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Tv effects on children.

rage American child will have watched 8000 depictions of murder by the time they finish 6th grade. (Abelard 1) Abelard goes on to say, If you think wall to wall violence on TV has no effect, then why ... to become more aggressive to others. It also makes children more fearful to the world around them. (Abelard 1) Viewing habits of children observed for many decades deduced that violence on TV is assoc ...

(5 pages) 132 1 4.7 Dec/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Socrates And Abelard

Abelard and the Stoic influence The work of the Christian philosopherPeter Abelard in the early 1100 ... varied subjects. Although it is doubtful as to whether or not stoicism is directly responsible for Abelard's book on Ethics many of the same concepts are explored.Peter Abelard had most of his work b ... Fulbert. After a brief but passionate affair that resulted in a child Fulbert had his men castrate Abelard. Thus most of his works from that point on deal with the sin of passion.In his papers on Eth ...

(1 pages) 5 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Abelard And Heloise

Abelard and Heloise It's interesting that Peter Abelard, although considering himself a devout relig ... a philosophical movement that cultivated a nothing-is-sacred position towards the Catholic Church. Abelard's Aristotelian views of Nominalism, and then new idea Conceptualism taught people to disrega ... ly pseudo-intellectual talk(Gans, Anthropoetics.ucla.edu). The mere roots of this arguments display Abelard's passion to use fact (abstracts or individual objects) to contradict and out-argue his teac ...

(5 pages) 2409 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Letters Of Abelard And Heloise

In the story of "The Letters of Abelard and Heloise" is thought to be one of the world's most greatful and tragic love affairs. In t ... to be one of the world's most greatful and tragic love affairs. In the realm of critical thinking, Abelard undoubtedly ranked highly in his day. He was an expert dialectician, philosopher and theolog ... ay forewarn others against the risks of such extreme individualism, but his life clearly shows that Abelard thought his individuality was a natural part of him, a part that was as inseparable as his f ...

(4 pages) 1076 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Abelard And Heloise

The letters of Abelard and Heloise, illustrate a shift away from religious teachings. Abelard lived during a period ... as the only places of education, and a contrast between reason and faith. Particularly important to Abelard was the distinction between reason and faith. In his letters to Heloise, Abelard finds faith ... r education emerged creating seven liberal areas of study. One of these seven included "logic." For Abelard, logic served as "an instrument of order in a chaotic world." Furthermore, Abelard was certa ...

(1 pages) 1330 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Analysis Pope's Eloisa to Abelard

rses “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady” and the romantic psychodrama, Eloisa to Abelard. The “Elegy” is, perhaps, only partially successful; its chief interest lies in th ... 146;s vacillation between a Christian and a Stoic understanding of the lady’s death. Eloisa to Abelard is another matter altogether. G. Wilson Knight claims that it “is certainly Pope’s ...

(2 pages) 11163 0 0.0 Sep/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers