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OF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD FROM HIS MASTER  \nWILLIAM OF CHAMPEAUX OF HIS ADVENTURES AT MELUN, AT  \nCORBEIL AND AT PARIS HIS WITHDRAWAL FROM THE CITY OF  \nTHE PARISIANS TO MELUN, AND HIS RETURN TO MONT STE  \nGENEVIEVE OF HIS JOURNEY TO HIS OLDHOME…………………………………2  \nCHAPTER II. OF HOW HE CAME TO LAON TO SEEK ANSELM AS  \nTEACHER……………………………………………………………………………………………………………5  \nCHAPTER IV.OF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD FROM HIS TEACHER  \nANSELM………………………………………………………………………………………………………………7  \nCHAPTERV.OF HOW HE RETURNED TO PARIS AND FINISHED THE  \nGLOSSES WHICH HE HAD BEGUN AT LAON………………………………………………7  \nCHAPTER VI. OF HOW,BROUGHT LOW BY HIS LOVE FOR  \nHELOISE,HE WAS WOUNDED IN BODY AND SOUL………………………………8  \nCHAPTER VII. OF THE ARGUMENTS OF HELOISE AGAINST  \nWEDLOCK OF HOW NONE THE LESS HE MADE HER HIS WIFE………12  \nCHAPTER VIII. OF THE SUFFERING OF HIS BODY OF HOW HE  \nBECAME A MONK IN THE MONASTERY OF ST.DENIS AND  \nHELOISE A NUN AT ARGENTEUIL……………………………………………………………………16  \nCHAPTER IX.OF HIS BOOK ON THEOLOGY AND HIS  \nPERSECUTION AT THE HANDS OF HIS FELLOW STUDENTS OF  \nTHE COUNCIL AGAINST HIM………………………………………………………………………………18  \nCHAPTER X.OF THE BURNING OF HIS BOOK IF THE  \nPERSECUTION HE HAD AT THE HANDS OF HIS ABBOT AND THE  \nBRETHREN…………………………………………………………………………………………………2  \nCHAPTER XI. OF HIS TEACHING IN THE WILDERNESS…………………………27  \nCHAPTER XII. OF THE PERSECUTION DIRECTED AGAINST HIM  \nBY SUNDRY NEW ENEMIES OR, AS IT WERE APOSTLES………………………30  \nCHAPTER XII. OF THE ABBEY TO WHICH HE WAS CALLED AND  \nOF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD FROM HIS SONS THAT IS TO SAY  \nTHE MONKS AND FROM THE LORD OF THE LAND………………………………31  \nCHAPTER XIV.OF THE VILE REPORT OF HIS INIQUITY……………………34  \nCHAPTER XV.OF THE PERILS OF HIS ABBEY AND OF THE  \nREASONS FOR THE WRITING OF THIS HIS LETTER……………………………37  \n## Historia Calamitatum\n\nPeter Abelard  \nKessinger Publishing reprints thousands of hard-to-find books!  \nVisit us at http://www.kessinger.net  \n## FOREWORD\n\nOFTEN the hearts of men and women are stirred,as likewise they are soothed in theirsorrows more by example than by words.And therefore,because I too I have knownsome consolation from speech had with one who was a witness thereof,am I now mindedto write of the sufferings which have sprung out of my misfortunes,for the eyes of onewho,though absent,is of himself ever a consoler.This I do so that,in comparing yoursorrows with mine,you may discover that yours are in truth nought,or at the most but ofsmall account,and so shall you come to bear them more easily.  \n## CHAPTERI.OF THE BIRTHPLACE OF PIERRE ABELARD AND OF HISPARENTS\n\nKNOW,then,that I am come from a certain town which was built on the way into lesserBrittany,distant some eight miles,as I think,eastward from the city of Nantes,and in itsown tongue called Palets.Such is the nature of that country,or,it may be,of them whodwell there—for in truth they are quick in fancy —that my mind bent itself easily to thestudy of letters.Yet more,I had a father who had won some smattering of letters beforehe had girded on the soldier's belt.And so it came about that long afterwards his lovethereof was so strong that he saw to it that each son of his should be taught in letters evenearlier than in the management of arms.Thus indeed did it come to pass.And because Iwas his first born,and for that reason the more dear to him,he sought with doublediligence to have me wisely taught.For my part,the more I went forward in the study ofletters,and ever more easily,the greater became the ardour of my devotion to them,untilin truth I was so enthralled by my passion for learning that,gladly leaving to my br","cbCaidYWGA63fjuq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidYWGA63fjuq","pdf",4246588,52,"English","# Table of Contents\n## CHAPTER I. 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