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Peter Abelard (1079–1142)

Author of The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Includes the names: Abelard Petar, Peter Abelard, Peter Abelard, Peter Abelard, Peter Abelard, Pierre Abelard, Peter Abailard, Peter Abélard, Pedro Abelardo, Pierre Abelard ... (see complete list), Peter Abaelard, Pierre Abélard, Pierre Abailard, Pietro Abelardo, Petrus Abelardus, Petrus Abaelardus, Peter Abélard, Pierre Abélard

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Works by Peter Abelard

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise 1,966 copies, 9 reviews
Historia Calamitatum 200 copies, 10 reviews
A Dialogue of a Philosopher with a Jew and a Christian/Ethics, or Know… 143 copies
Forbidden Fruit: From The Letters of Abelard and Heloise 111 copies, 3 reviews
The Story of His Misfortunes and The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise 104 copies, 1 review
A Dialogue of a Philosopher with a Jew and a Christian 68 copies
Abelard & Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings 64 copies, 1 review
Ethics, or Know Yourself 29 copies
Sic et Non 15 copies, 1 review
Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans 11 copies
Lettres et vies 9 copies
Letters of Peter Abelard, Beyond the Personal (Medieval Texts in… 8 copies
Theology of Supreme Good 7 copies
Logic for Beginners 6 copies

Heloisen taivas : kertomus abbedissa Heloisen rakkaudesta ja… 6 copies

Petri Abaelardi Opera theologica 5 copies

Letters of Abelard & Heloise, with a particular account of their lives and… 4 copies

Abelard and Heloise: a Medieval Romance with the Letters of Heloise 3 copies

Here lies Lalo : the collected poems of Abelardo Delgado 3 copies

Povijest nevolja 3 copies

Insegnamenti al figlio 3 copies

Dialetics of Love 3 copies

Abélard ou la Philosophie dans le langage 3 copies

Abelard: Hymns & Sequences for Heloise - 12th Century Chant 3 copies

Theologia Summi boni : tractatus de unitate et trinitate divina :… 2 copies

Lettere di Abelardo e Eloisa 2 copies

Peter Abelard's Hymnarius Paraclitensis 2 copies

Letters of Abelard and Heloise : To which is prefix'd, a particular… 2 copies

Petrus Abaelardus: Dialectica. 2 copies

Cartas de Abelardo y Heloisa Historia calamitatum 1 copy

Logic for Beginners/The Story of My Misfortunes 1 copy

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Also by Peter Abelard

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (Contributor) 375 copies, 2 reviews
Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish… (Contributor) 342 copies, 2 reviews
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (Contributor) 200 copies, 2 reviews
Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals: Porphyry, Boethius,… (Contributor) 93 copies
The Ancient World to the Reformation (Contributor) 66 copies
To You With Love; A Treasury of Great Romantic Literature. (Contributor) 2 copies

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Abélard, Pierre

Abelardus, Petrus

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Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, France (7e division ∙ AD ∙ 25)

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Le Pallet, Brittany, France

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Priory of St. Marcel, near Chalon-sur-Saône, France

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Corbeil, France

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Notre Dame de Paris

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