Peter Abelard — translated by Henry Adams Bellows, with an introduction by Ralph Adams Cram (Saint Paul: Thomas A. Boyd, 1922), from CCEL.
The Story of My Misfortunes, written as a letter of consolation to a friend: Abelard’s account of his own rise as a logician, his rivalry with William of Champeaux and Anselm of Laon, his love for Heloise and its punishment, the burning of his book at Soissons, and his flight from one enmity to the next.
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Contents (17)
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. Of the Birthplace of Pierre Abélard and of His Parents
- Chapter 2. Of the Persecution He Had from His Master William of Champeuax—of His Adventures at Melun, at Corbeil and at Paris—of His Withdrawal from the City of Parisians to Melun, and His Return to Mont St Geneviève—of His Journey to His Old Home
- Chapter 3. Of How He Came to Laon to Seek Anselm as Teacher
- Chapter 4. Of the Persecution He Had from His Teacher Anselm
- Chapter 5. Of How He Returned to Paris and Finished the Glosses Which He Had Begun at Laon
- Chapter 6. Of How, Brought Low by His Love for Héloïse, He was Wounded in Body and Soul
- Chapter 7. Of the Arguments of Héloïse against Wedlock—of How None the Less He Made Her His Wife
- Chapter 8. Of the Suffering of His Body—Of How He Became a Monk in the Monastery of St. Denis and Héloïse a Nun at Argenteuil
- Chapter 9. Of His Book of Theology and His Persecution at the Hands of His Fellow Students—Of the Council Against Him
- Chapter 10. Of the Burning of His Book—Of the Persecution He Had at the Hands of His Abbot and the Brethren
- Chapter 11. Of His Teaching in the Wilderness
- Chapter 12. Of the Persecution Directed Against Him by Sundry New Enemies or, as It Were, Apostles
- Chapter 13. Of the Abbey to Which He Was Called and of The Persecution He Had From His Sons, That Is to Say the Monks, and From the Lord of the Land
- Chapter 14. Of the Evil Report of His Iniquity
- Chapter 15. Of the Perils of His Abbey and of the Reasons for the Writing of This His Letter
- Appendix