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Historia Calamitatum - The Story of My Misfortunes
Autobiography of Peter AbelardBy Peter Abelard
Length3h 5m
About this audiobook
Historia Calamitatum (known in English as The Story of My Misfortunes or The History of My Calamities) is an autobiographical work in Latin by Peter Abelard, a medieval French pioneer of scholastic philosophy. The work is one of the first autobiographical works in medieval Western Europe, written in the form of a letter (and, as such, is clearly influenced by Augustine's Confessions). The letter is an extensive and honest self-analysis of Abelard up to the age of about fifty-four, and provides readers with knowledge of his views of women, learning, monastic life, Church and State combined, and the social milieu of the time. It should be particularly noted that the work was written at a time when Western Europe had only recently surfaced into the world of philosophy. Abelard emphasizes how persecuted he feels by his peers throughout the work. He quotes saints, apostles, and at one point, compares his struggles in likeness to those of Christ.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length3 hrs 5 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
23Porphyry
2Foreword
24Priscian
3Chapter I
25Anselm
4Chapter II
26Alberic of Rheims and Lotulphe the Lombard
5Chapter III
27St. Jerome
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6Chapter IV
28St. Augustine
7Chapter V
29Abbey of St. Denis
8Chapter VI
30Origen
9Chapter VII
31Athanasius
10Chapter VIII
32Rodolphe, Archbishop of Rheims
11Chapter IX
33Conon of Praeneste
12Chapter X
34Geoffroi of Chartres
13Chapter XI
35Abbot of St. Médard
14Chapter XII
36Dionysius the Areopagite
15Chapter XIII
37Theobald of Champagne
16Chapter XIV
38Stephen the Seneschal
17Chapter XV
39The Paraclete
18Appendix
40Norbert of Prémontré
19Pierre Abélard
41Bernard of Clairvaux
20"A Friend"
42Abbey of St. Gildas
21William of Champeaux
43Leo IX
22"The Universals"
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