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INTRODUCTION

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I - OF THE BIRTHPLACE OF PIERRE ABÉLARD AND OF HIS PARENTS

CHAPTER II - OF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD FROM HIS MASTER WILLIAM OF CHAMPEAUX—OF HIS ADVENTURES AT MELUN, AT CORBEIL AND AT PARIS—OF HIS WITHDRAWAL FROM THE CITY OF THE PARISIANS TO MELUN, AND HIS RETURN TO MONT STE. GENEVIÈVE —OF HIS JOURNEY TO HIS OLD HOME

CHAPTER III - OF HOW HE CAME TO LAON TO SEEK ANSELM AS TEACHER

CHAPTER IV - OF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD FROM HIS TEACHER ANSELM

CHAPTER V - OF HOW HE RETURNED TO PARIS AND FINISHED THE GLOSSES WHICH HE HAD BEGUN AT LAON

CHAPTER VI - OF HOW, BROUGHT LOW BY HIS LOVE FOR HÉLOÏSE, HE WAS WOUNDED IN BODY AND SOUL

CHAPTER VII - OF THE ARGUMENTS OF HÉLOÏSE AGAINST WEDLOCK—OF HOW NONE THE LESS HE MADE HER HIS WIFE

CHAPTER VIII - OF THE SUFFERING OF HIS BODY—OF HOW HE BECAME A MONK IN THE MONASTERY OF ST. DENIS AND HÉLOÏSE A NUN AT ARGENTEUIL

CHAPTER IX - OF HIS BOOK ON THEOLOGY AND HIS PERSECUTION AT THE HANDS OF HIS FELLOW STUDENTS—OF THE COUNCIL AGAINST HIM

CHAPTER X - OF THE BURNING OF HIS BOOK—OF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD AT THE HANDS OF HIS ABBOT AND THE BRETHREN

CHAPTER XI - OF HIS TEACHING IN THE WILDERNESS

CHAPTER XII - OF THE PERSECUTION DIRECTED AGAINST HIM BY SUNDRY NEW ENEMIES OR, AS IT WERE, APOSTLES

CHAPTER XIII - OF THE ABBEY TO WHICH HE WAS CALLED AND OF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD FROM HIS SONS, THAT IS TO SAY THE MONKS, AND FROM THE LORD OF THE LAND

CHAPTER XIV - OF THE EVIL REPORT OF HIS INIQUITY

CHAPTER XV - OF THE PERILS OF HIS ABBEY AND OF THE REASONS FOR THE WRITING OF THIS HIS LETTER

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