#peter abelard

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recently I came across the “Great Loves” by Penguin Books and had the great chance to get two of the books from the series in secondhand 💔 reblog is ok, don’t repost / use

[lesser-known-composers]

Peter Abelard (1079-1142) - Planctus VI "Dolorum solatium"

Ensemble: Per-Sonat - Conductor: Sabine Lutzenberger

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"You are buried inside my breast for eternity, from which tomb you will never emerge as long as I live. There you lie, there you rest."

-Peter Abelard to Héloïse d’Argenteuil (aka Héloïse du Paraclet)

This is from one of the "lost letters" credited to Abelard and Heloise. Honestly? I find the lost letters more fun.

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After receiving one of Heloise's passionate letters (with things tumblr would surely flag if I repeated), Abelard, who had moved on, started his reply with "To Heloise, his dearly beloved sister in Christ, from Abelard, her brother in him" and I think about it more often than I should. My jaw dropped when I read it.

If you're not familiar with Abelard and Heloise and you enjoy steamy, forbidden, real-life medieval love affairs, I recommend looking into them!

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[medievalistsnet]

Romance and Music in the Middle Ages: The Love Songs of Peter Abelard

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, it is perhaps timely to recount the love story of one of the Middle Ages’ most well-known couples: Peter Abelard and Heloise. While their romance has been recounted many times, there was another, less-discussed love in Abelard’s life—a love through which he expressed his adoration for Heloise: music. This article will explore Abelard and Heloise’s relationship before turning to the songs he wrote for her, as mentioned in their letters.

Romance and Music in the Middle Ages: The Love Songs of Peter Abelard - Medievalists.net

Peter Abelard and Heloise’s love story is one of the most famous romances of the Middle Ages, but beyond their passionate letters, Abelard a

[apenitentialprayer]

Whoever seeks dominion over his subjects rather than service to them, who works to be feared, not loved, and being swollen with pride in his authority [...] imitates the princes of this world. [... W]e should not take pride in names but look to humility in everything.

Peter Abelard, in his Rule for Religious Women, trans. Betty Radice

Original Latin: Reges igitur gentium imitatur, quisquis in subjectis dominium appetit magis quam ministerium, et timeri magis quam amari satagit, et de prælationis suæ magisterio intumescens amat primos recubitus in cenis [...] nec nominibus gloriemur, et in omnibus humilitati provideatur.

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Héloïse d’Argenteuil in a letter to her former lover Pierre Abélard, nineteen years after their forced separation and entrance into religious life.

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William of Saint-Thierry. Fragment from a letter to Bernard of Clairvaux (maculature). One sheet of sturdy parchment, 30 x 19 cm. Written on both sides in two columns with auxiliary lines. Gothic letter with closed a, long s and f with tails. Many ligatures. Dark brown and red ink. Rubricated. Probably ca. 1400. The sheet was probably used as binding reinforcement, with a strong fold. Two holes in the margin may have a natural cause.

* Chapters from De sacramento altaris, from …’rerum istaque diversitatem caritas redigit in unitatem’ up to and including ‘male intellecta materiam errandi vel contendendi perdi[tis videntur prestare]’. The chapters are written in red: Capitulum XI and duodecimum (‘chapter eleven’ and ‘twelfth’; in the Patrologie caput X and XI!). This text can be found in part 180 of the Patrologia (1855), p. 357-359. The text is not exactly the same.

Higher theology from the beginning of the twelfth century. The prolific Willam, abbot of Saint-Thierry (an abbey near Reims), was the man who took up arms against Peter Abelard and was at the beginning of the movement that had his writings condemned as heretical.