Chronology
CHRONOLOGY
1079: Birth of Peter Abelard at Le Pallet in Brittany c. 1090: Birth of Heloise in or near Paris c. 1100: Abelard taught by William of Champeaux at cathedral school in Paris c. 1102–c. 1105: Abelard master at Melun and then at Corbeil c. 1105–c. 1108: Abelard returns home to Brittany c. 1108: Abelard returns to Paris to study with William of Champeaux at St. Victor c. 1112: Abelard again returns to Brittany
1113: Abelard taught by Anselm of Laon c. 1114: Abelard returns to Paris as master at cathedral school c. 1116: Abelard lodges in the house of Fulbert
Affair of Heloise and Abelard c. 1117: Heloise in Brittany, birth of Astralabe Marriage of Heloise and Abelard in Paris
Castration of Abelard Heloise becomes a nun at St. Marie in Argenteuil Abelard becomes a monk at St. Denis c. 1119: Abelard resumes teaching 1121: Abelard's Theology condemned and burned at Council of Soissons Abelard flees St. Denis for Provins c. 1122: Abelard founds hermitage of the Paraclete, resumes teaching c. 1127: Abelard becomes abbot of St. Gildas of Rhuys in Brittany 1129: Heloise and her nuns expelled from Argenteuil, accept Abelard's gift of Paraclete xl
CHRONOLOGY
xli 1131 (Nov. 28): Charter of Innocent II takes Heloise and her nuns under papal protection c. 1132: Composition of the Calamities Beginning of correspondence of Heloise and Abelard c. 1135: Abelard returns to Paris as master of school at church of St. Geneviève 1140: Abelard accused of heresy by Bernard of Clairvaux at Council of Sens, sentenced to perpetual silence as a heretic by Innocent II, taken under the protection of Peter the Venerable at Cluny 1142 (April 21): Abelard dies at Cluniac priory of St. Marcellus near Chalon-sur-Saône 1144? (Nov. 16): Abelard buried at the Paraclete
1163/64? (May 16): Death of Heloise, burial next to Abelard c. 1285: French translation of letters of Heloise and Abelard by Jean de Meun 1497: Reburial of Heloise and Abelard in new church at Paraclete 1616: First printed edition of Latin texts of Heloise and Abelard 1675: Beginning of vogue for "imposter texts";
French versions of the letters of Heloise and Abelard circulating from 1687; others published in 1693, 1695, 1697, 1703, 1711, etc.
1713: English translation of "imposter texts" by John Hughes, very often reprinted through the 1940s, inspiring many imitations 1792: Reburial of Heloise and Abelard in church of St. Laurent at Nogent Dissolution of Paraclete and sale of its properties 1800: Transfer of remains of Heloise and Abelard to a museum in Paris; some remains distributed as relics to devotees 1817: Transfer of remains of Heloise and Abelard to Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris