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Article: ABELARD AND HELOISE: A LOVE STORY FOR THE MILLENNIUM
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 6, 1998
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Now that the calendar has turned, I, too, begin to anticipate
the more dramatic turning of the millennium. In occasional columns
over the next couple of years I will take as subjects figures who
have put a special mark on the thousand-year epoch that draws to an
end. Today, I invite you to cast your mind back nearly the full
sweep of that time, to consider a man and a woman whose love affair
became a legend, but whose shared intellectual commitment launched
a train of thought that still moves. Here is the story of Abelard
and Heloise.
The city is Paris. The year is 1118 or so. A school has been
established at the Frankish cathedral on the island in the Seine.
Combining skills of logic, ...