I just finished reading James Carroll's new novel, The Cloister. I would recommend the book wholeheartedly. One thing did surprise me a little. A major theme of the novel was the relationship between ...

Peter Abelard's famous quote reminds us that wishing for a better life is easy, but meaningful change requires discipline, ...

ONCE more the melancholy history of Abelard and Heloise has inspired an author to retell their woes to a generation eight centuries removed. Again it comes to us in the form of a novel, set, though ...

One wonders quite how Peter Abelard survived, after Heloise's uncle's men "cut off the parts of [his] body whereby [he] had committed the wrong of which they complained". That is, they cut off his ...

Nine hundred years ago, a celebrity philosopher fell in love with his star student and seduced her. Peter Abelard’s once brilliant lectures grew tepid, while his love songs placed the name of Heloise ...