Abelard, Peter
Type: Person
Alternate Labels
- Peter Abelard
- Peter Abélard
- Petrus Abaelardus
- Petrus Abailardus
- Pierre Abélard
Key Passages
Reading List
Writings
Dialectic
- Logica ‘ingredientibus’
- Dialectica
- Introductiones parvulorum
- Logica ‘nostrorum petitioni sociorum’
- Tractatus de intellectibus
- Sententiae secundum Magistrum Petrum
Ethics
- Ethica seu Scito teipsum, “Ethics, or, Know Yourself.”
- Collationes a.k.a. Dialogus inter Philosophum, Iudaeum, et Christianum
- Carmen ad Astralabium
Philosophical theology
- Theologia ‘summi boni’
- Theologia christiana
- Theologia ‘scholarium’
- Expositio orationis dominicae
- Expositio symboli Apostolorum
- Expositio fidei in symbolum Athanasii
- Hexaëmeron
- Commentaria in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos
- Soliloquium
- Problemata Heloïssae cum Petri Abaelardi solutionibus
- Sic et non
Lost
- Grammatica
- Rhetorica
- commentary on Ezekiel
Anthologies and Studies
- Jeffrey E. Brower; Kevin Guilfoy (editor). The Cambridge Companion to Abelard. Cambridge University Press. 2004. 362pp.
- James Burge. Heloise and Abelard: A New Biography of History’s Great Lovers. Harper San Francisco. 2003. 319pp.
- M. T. Clanchy. Abelard: A Medieval Life. Blackwell Publishing. 1997. 416pp.
- Gabriel Compayré. Abelard and the Origin and Early History of Universities. Greenwood Press. 1969. 315pp.
- Etienne Gilson. Heloise and Abelard. Regnery. 1951. 194pp.
- Leif Grane. Peter Abelard; Philosophy and Christianity in the Middle Ages. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. 1970. 190pp.
- Roger Bradshaigh Lloyd. The Stricken Lute: An Account of the Life of Peter Abelard. L. Dickson. 1932. 221pp.
- David Edward Luscombe. The School of Peter Abelard: The Influence of Abelard’s Thought in the Early Scholastic Period. University Press. 1970. 360pp.
- Marion Meade. Stealing Heaven: The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard. William Morrow. 1979. 415pp.
- C. J. Mews. Abelard and Heloise. Oxford University Press. 2005. 308pp.
- Constant J. Mews. The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-century France. Macmillan. 2001. 400pp. With translations by Neville Chiavaroli and Constant J. Mews
- Albert Victor Murray. Abélard and St. Bernard: A Study in Twelfth Century “Modernism”. Barnes & Noble. 1967. 168pp.
- Roberto Pinzani. The Logical Grammar of Abelard. Springer. 2003. 242pp.
- Charles de Rémusat. Abélard. Paris: Librairie Philosophique de Ladrange. 1845. (2 vols.) 509pp. + 563pp. Language: French.
- Durant Waite Robertson. Abelard and Heloise. Dial Press. 1972. 238pp.
- Kathleen M. Starnes. Peter Abelard: His Place in History. University Press of America. 1981. 151pp.
- Paul L. Williams. The Moral Philosophy of Peter Abelard. University Press of America. 1980. 191pp.
- Marjorie Muir Worthington. The Immortal Lovers: Heloise and Abelard. Doubleday. 1960. 238pp.