Historia Calamitatum: The Story Of My Misfortunes by Pierre Abélard, Ralph Adams Cram
Historia Calamitatum: The Story Of My Misfortunes

Pierre Abélard, Ralph Adams Cram

Historia Calamitatum: The Story Of My Misfortunes

Pierre Abélard, Ralph Adams Cram with Pierre Abélard (Translator)

108 pages first pub 1135 (view editions)

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The "Historia Calamitatum" was written while Ab lard was still abbot of the monastery of St. Gildas, in Brittany. The terrors of his existence there are fully dwelt on in his autobiographical letter, and finally, in 1134 or 1135, he fled, living f...

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