Peter Abelard was the teacher of his generation: preeminent as a philosopher, theologian, poet, and musician, he captured the imagination of almost all with whom he came into contact. His fame as a teacher was unequaled; students traveled from all over...

Peter Abelard is one of the most famous and influential intellects and one of the most notorious figures of the twelfth century, an era designated one of the renaissances of human thought because of the intensity of its intellectual and literary...

The French philosopher and theologian Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was a leading thinker of the Middle Ages. His reputation outside academic circles is based upon his more human qualities as reflected in his love affair with Heloise. In comparison with...

. 1079–1142. Born near Nantes, he lived and worked in France writing mainly on theology, logic and metaphysics, and ethics. His theology is sometimes thought to be rationalistic, subordinating faith to reason, though interpretations differ. He...

Abelard, Peter(1079–1142) Peter Abelard has been famous since the fourteenth century for his exchange of love letters with Héloïse, his former wife, written when he was a monk and she a nun. Nineteenth-century historians saw him as...

ABELARD, PETER (1079–1142), logician and Christian theologian. Peter Abelard was born at Le Pallet, outside of Nantes (Brittany). He chose to pursue the study and teaching of logic and journeyed to hear the lectures of Roscelin of...

Peter Abelard (Lt: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailard; Fr: Pierre Abélard) (1079 – April 21, 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his affair with and love for his student Héloïse has...

MARENBON, John. The Philosophy of Peter Abelard. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xx + 373 pp. Cloth, $59.95--From the outset Marenbon contends that in treating Peter Abelard as a critic and logician only, most scholars have neglected the originality of thought which...

Aristotle's views expressed in 'Categories' 7 originated a long tradition of thinking about relations. This tradition stemmed from antiquity and continued through the Middle Ages into the early modern period. Peter Abelard, a medieval logician who developed a theory of relations while commenting on...