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Dear Werner, Welcome! I've made several pilgrimages to the Paraclete and will go again in May of this year. I hope it will continue to develop as a major site for Abelardophiles. And your English is just fine! (My German is all but non-existent.) Best, Kathryn Wildgen (of solid Bavarian stock on my father's side - Eberle.) > Werner Robl wrote: > > Dr. Werner Robl, Kaiser-Karl-Str. 2, 92660 Neustadt/WN > > On searching "Peter Abelard" on Internet, I found this discussion > group, changing many articles and comments about Peter Abelard. So my > webpages about Peter Abelard - although in German language - may be of > interest for some of you: www.abaelard.de. The pages are "online" > since two years and in the meantime they grow continuously. They > contain a lot of material about Abelard and Heloise, including some > German translations of their works. As they are not revised, the > translations may still contain some errors. Actually I'm working on a > review of the Paraclete monastery at Nogent-sur-Seine and a German > translation of Ewald Könsgens "Ex epistulis duorum amantium", excerpts > of love letters, transcribed in the 16th century and nowadays strongly > considered as the authentic early love letters of Heloise and Abelard > (Constant Mews, 1999). > > I'm a private person, living in the northern part of Bavaria called > Oberpfalz (so I'm a real "Palatinus") and working as a physician in a > hospital. Neither I'm a member of a University or another scientific > institute nor do I follow any commercial interests. My hobby is > translating Latin (classic or medieval) and the French 12th century. > The only purpose of my online-activity is: to get Peter Abelard and > Heloise alive. Many people asked me to present my webpages in English > (or French), but my English is terrible and so I'm waiting for some > people, who help with a translation. > > I would be glad about comments, criticism, proposals and material of > texts, pictures etc. > > > Dr. Werner Robl %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%