At 09:37 23/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Bill ("Oriens"?) I've been interested in this Abelard business for
>some time; there are no documents I can go to to back my position up;
Actually the problem for me is that there are so many documents that it is
hard to get one's head around them all. The main source for Abelard's life
is of course his Historia Calamitatum; but he alludes to the events of his
life again and again, in his sermons, in his letters, in his poetry, in his
lectures on dialectic. Then there are the letters of St Bernard, occasional
remarks by John of Salisbury, or by Walter Map. It is remarkable how often
one comes across material that touches on the life and work of Peripateticus
Palatinus, and I for one do not have time to read it all!
Elasticus.
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