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

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,