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 ...

OK, kids, gather ‘round. Auntie Jane has a story. And it’s one of her favorites, a sad and beautiful story from a long time ago, almost a millennium. In Paris, walking along the quay at the ...

The real-life romance of philosopher Peter Abelard and his young student Heloise is a 12th-century Romeo and Juliet story. Only this couple’s problem was not a family feud: the outspoken Abelard had ...

This Valentine’s Day, instead of chocolate and roses, how about pondering the nature of radical love? Consider the ancient example of Peter Abelard, the twelfth-century French theologian whose ...

On April 21, 1142, philosopher and theologian Peter Abelard died, leaving an estranged son, a despondent former mistress, and a stack of condemned writings. He had been responsible for the twelfth ...

THIS week we have with us the twelfth century, condensed in the love affair of two medieval intellectuals and presented as a novel by Helen Waddell. Students reverence Miss Waddell as one of the ...