Mark & Julie

Last night as I was drifting off to sleep I had the TV on and the Sopranos was on. A book was talked about and I thought it might be worth reading. Then of course I fell asleep and now I can't remember the name. It was about a 12th century scholar who got a girl pregnant. He was castrated and made a monk and she was sent to a nunnery. The book is her letters. Boy, I hope I got that right!!

Does anyone out there know the book I'm talking about? I know the title is their names.

something and something <g>

julie


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Danielle Conger

Then of course I fell asleep and now I can't remember the name. It was
about a 12th century scholar who got a girl pregnant. He was castrated and
made a monk and she was sent to a nunnery. The book is her letters.
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Sounds like Abelard and Heloise to me.

--Danielle

http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html

Marti

Abelard and Heloise
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/heloise1.html
http://classiclit.about.com/cs/toppicks/tp/aatp_abelard.htm
http://classiclit.about.com/cs/articles/a/aa_abelard.htm

Their story was recently crafted into a musical, but I know nothing of
it:
http://www.abelardandheloise.com

Marti
Smithsburg, MD

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a 12th century scholar who got a girl pregnant. He was castrated and
made a monk and she was sent to a nunnery. The book is her letters.



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Mark & Julie

Sounds like Abelard and Heloise to me.

--Danielle


That's it! Thank you!!!!

Julie

debbie

I'm jumping in here with a quick intro - I have four kids (daughter 21, and sons 18, 16 & 14), all unschoolers. It was the only homeschooling approach I seriously considered.

I checked our public library for a copy of Abelard and Heloise, and found a link to the Medieval Sourcebook's electronic edition of Peter Abelard's Historia Calamitatum, translated from Latin in 1922. You can find it at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/abelard-histcal.html. Here is a clip from their introduction:

"The Historia Calamitatum, although in the literary form of a letter, is a sort of autobiography, with distinct echoes of Augustine's Confessions. It is one of the most readable documents to survive from the period, and as well as presenting a remarkably frank self-portrait, is a valuable account of intellectual life in Paris before the formalization of the University, of the intellectual excitement of the period, of monastic life and of a love story that in some respects deserves its long reputation."
debbie gubernick
tucson

Mark & Julie <mjsolich@...> wrote:

Sounds like Abelard and Heloise to me.

--Danielle


That's it! Thank you!!!!

Julie


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