KNOW, then, that I am come from a certain town which was built on the way into lesser Brittany, distant some eight miles, as I think, eastward from the city of Nantes, and in its own tongue called Palets. Such is the nature of that country, or, it may be, of them who dwell there—for in truth they are quick in fancy—that my mind bent itself easily to the study of letters...
本书主要是作者对自己54岁之前人生的解读。作者在书中描述了自己对当时社会的一些看法,比如关于女性,宗教,生活,政教合一以及当时的社会环境等。通过本书不仅可以了解到爱情故事,还能体会到中世纪的社会氛围。在本书中,作者详细描述了一个充满抱负,却遭到宗教迫害的悲惨人生。作者引经据典,把自己的遭遇和耶稣的遭遇进行比较,以此来表达自己糟糕的境遇。
The Historia Calamitatum, written in 1132 or soon after, is one of the first autobiographical works in medieval Western Europe, written in the form of a letter with distinct echoes of Augustine's Confessions. Ihis book was written at a time when Western Europe was just surfacing into the world of philosophy. 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 one of the history's most famous love stories that in some respects deserves its long reputation.
- FOREWORD
- CHAPTER I. OF THE BIRTHPLACE OF PIERRE ABELARD AND OF HIS PARENTS
- CHAPTER II. OF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD FROM HIS MASTER WILLIAM; OF CHAMPEAUX OF HIS ADVENTURES AT MELUN, AT CORBEIL AND AT PARIS HIS WITHDRAWAL FROM THE CITY; OF THE PARISIANS TO MELUN, AND HIS RETURN TO MONT STE GENEVIEVE OF HIS JOURNEY TO HIS OLD HOME
- CHAPTER III. OF HOW HE CAME TO LAON TO SEEK ANSELM AS TEACHER
- CHAPTER IV. OF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD FROM HIS TEACHER ANSELM
- CHAPTER V. OF HOW HE RETURNED TO PARIS AND FINISHED THE GLOSSES WHICH HE HAD BEGUN AT LAON
- CHAPTER VI. OF HOW, BROUGHT LOW BY HIS LOVE FOR HELOISE, HE WAS WOUNDED IN BODY AND SOUL
- CHAPTER VII. OF THE ARGUMENTS OF HELOISE AGAINST WEDLOCK; OF HOW NONE THE LESS HE MADE HER HIS WIFE
- CHAPTER VIII. OF THE SUFFERING OF HIS BODY; OF HOW HE BECAME A MONK IN THE MONASTERY OF ST. DENIS AND HELOISE A NUN AT ARGENTEUIL
- CHAPTER IX. OF HIS BOOK ON THEOLOGY AND HIS PERSECUTION AT THE HANDS OF HIS FELLOW STUDENTS OF THE COUNCIL AGAINST HIM
- CHAPTER X. OF THE BURNING OF HIS BOOK IF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD AT THE HANDS OF HIS ABBOT AND THE BRETHREN
- CHAPTER XI. OF HIS TEACHING IN THE WILDERNESS
- CHAPTER XII. OF THE PERSECUTION DIRECTED AGAINST HIM BY SUNDRY NEW ENEMIES OR, AS IT WERE APOSTLES
- CHAPTER XIII. 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 XIV. OF THE VILE REPORT OF HIS INIQUITY
- CHAPTER XV. OF THE PERILS OF HIS ABBEY AND OF THE REASONS FOR THE WRITING OF THIS HIS LETTER
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