Peter Abelard's The Story Of My Misfortunes

Peter Abelard wrote an autobiography called “The Story of My Misfortunes" was written in the 1130’s. It illustrated the story of his romance with Heloise and the uncles disprove about their relationship. In this piece of literature Peter Abelard demonstrated the context on the medieval world and his development as Christian philosopher. He’s known as a philosopher and a poet during the middle ages. Abelard was born Le Pallet, France in the year 1079, and had three brothers and one sister which made him the oldest in the family. His parents were Lucia Abelard and Berengar Abelard, his father who was part in the army but before that he studied letters. Due to the father’s passion of studying letters, it was an importance that his children take

a piece of it. They were able to learn how to read and write.
At a young age, Abelard began to look more in detail in the philosophical education. A man, William of Champeaux, was an influence to Abelard to become a philosophical but then he began to question him as a philosopher. William see Abelard as threat due to the fact that the students begin to question William and are loving the way Abelard is teaching. William is realizing that it’s a problem and needs to start to do something about it and started to judge how Abelard teaching. Abelard notices a different relationship with William and wants to end it by going back home with his family. He went back to France, when he was deciding if he wanted to study theology since his teacher, William, would no longer be there. Peter Abelard met a young women name Heloise, who his uncle hired him to teach him. Abelard ended up falling in love with her. Their relationship was hidden from his uncle; however, when he found out about their affair Abelard was prohibited to see her but that didn’t stop them from seeing each other. They both wrote letters to each other. One of the letter Heloise wrote to Abelard bringing the news of her pregnancy.
Although there were many difficulties he maintained his relationship between Heloise and Abelard he decided to become a monk.

He became a monk and changed his career of being a philosopher to theology. His wife Heloise became a nun and lasted for a couple of years. As he was developing his career of being a monk his peers began to be jealous and concern about what he believes and the way he acts. They were judging about what he wrote book about theology. People began to read it and became popular. Even though the members of the council were against it and took an action to burn his book. His reputation was sent to Abbey where he started again from zero and started to teach. Additionally, he wanted to move due to how many people hated him because of his work. The relationship between the students from Abbey was different when he was teaching with William the kids love him and adore him. The students began to complain because Abelard was not doing much for them and negatively on him began to start again. He was accused for false teaching on philosophy and theology and it went to the court. These accusations that Peter Abelard had concerning on the way he was teaching it was just the jealousy of his peers. It shows the fear of Abelard’s work and ideals on the faith of Christianity. The council wanted to ban him for being a member of the Christianity faith because monks are not allowed to have relationship with a women or have a baby. That was against the law. Later on,

Abelard discovers that the relationship he had with the monks was ill. He realized that they wanted to eliminate him by poisoning him, but it didn’t work. He move back to Paris to reencounter his career of being a teacher and give lectures. Peter Abelard died in 1142. He was buried at the Paraclete.