#abelard and heloise

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Romance and Music in the Middle Ages: The Love Songs of Peter Abelard

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, it is perhaps timely to recount the love story of one of the Middle Ages’ most well-known couples: Peter Abelard and Heloise. While their romance has been recounted many times, there was another, less-discussed love in Abelard’s life—a love through which he expressed his adoration for Heloise: music. This article will explore Abelard and Heloise’s relationship before turning to the songs he wrote for her, as mentioned in their letters.

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The Call to Arms!

Edmund Blair Leighton 1888

A young knight and his bride step out of the church just after their wedding ceremony. On the church steps, their parents watch with concern as a fully armored knight urgently informs the groom of an imminent war, calling him to join the battle.

[gaykarstaagforever]

When your dad is a famous philosopher who was castrated by your great-uncle, and your mother was forced to join a convent before she gave birth to you, but the most interesting thing about you is still your goofy-ass robot name.

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Abelard and Heloise. The Letters and Other Writings (edited and translated by W. Levitan)

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Héloïse d’Argenteuil in a letter to her former lover Pierre Abélard, nineteen years after their forced separation and entrance into religious life.

[beeblelady]

"You Are My Greatest Love. One I'll Happily Drown In."

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Just An Andrew Marston Aesthetic Board I made Last Night. For the Andrew girlies. You are the best.

This one is dedicated to the fans who loves Andrew. 🥐 💛✨✨✨

[eginardus]

guy who has only read the Letters of Abelard and Heloise, reading Ovid's Heroides: getting a lot of Abelard & Heloise vibes from this...

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[stromuprisahat]

Another thing I didn't remember, is that the famous "Abelard and Heloise scene" has parallel with Ursula.

L: "Do I have to marry, Cesare?" C: "No. You can take the cloth like me. You can become a nun. We'll live in sanctity and prayer, like Abelard and Eloise." L: "Did they love each other?" C: "With a love as pure and all-consuming as the love of God." L: "So, then. I shall become a nun. For I shall never love a husband as I love you, Cesare."

A comparison Lucrezia was willing to embrace, but Ursula refused, because she recongnized Cesare's possessiveness and lack of moral restraint as a sign his love could never be pure. Only all-consuming.

U: "And now I must live my life in penance, praying for forgiveness." C: "Where?" U: "You will not know where." C: "You mean a nunnery?" U: "I mean confinement." C: "I will search you out. Like Abelard and Eloise. You may find a nunnery cell, but you will never be free of me!" U: "You are right. I will never be free of you."

Lucrezia even brings out the story in the very same episode again, only to still keep the romanticised view, never questioning her brother's unwillingness to respect his lover's decision. Believing it to be an obstacle caused by outside forces.

L: "And you, Brother? What of your heart?" C: "It was broken-by a nun." L: "A nun? Like Eloise? Will you spend a lifetime writing to her?" C: "I could if I knew where she was." L: "But you can find out, surely." C: "I intend to." L: "How wonderful."

I might get back to this theme, but it would have made interesting string, if we were given that last season, with Cesare searching for Lucrezia after she disappears, guilt-ridden from her husband's (another parallel) death.

[ethanfreemanappreciation]

This song always gives me: "Erik has just sang Christine to sleep on the first night in his home and fears what will happen once she awakens" vibes.

("Rage Against the Sun" from the musical "Abelard and Heloise")

[yorgunherakles]

ay gibi parladığın doğru, güneş olup yaktığın da.

simone de beauvoir - love letters

[dum-spiro-spero99]

MY FANCAST FOR PETER ABELARD, WHO ASKED ME NOBODY

P.S I'm a medievalist historian so I know him well both for his personal story and for the impact he had on the history of medieval thought, I don't condone his actions I simply love fancasts

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Abelard and Heloise. The Letters and Other Writings (edited and translated by W. Levitan)

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 I wish to Heav'n you had not such a power over me. If you had any occasion to fear, you would be less negligent. But what is there for you to fear? I have done too much, and now have nothing more to do but to triumph over your ingratitude. When we lived happy together, you might have made it doubt whether pleasure or affection united me more to you; but the place from whence I write to you must now have entirely taken away that doubt. Even here I love you as much as ever I did in the world. If I had loved pleasures, could I not yet have found means to have gratified myself? I was not above twenty-two years old; and there were other men left though I was deprived of Abelard and yet did I not bury myself alive in a nunnery, and triumph over love, at an age capable of enjoying it in its full latitude? 'Tis to you I sacrifice these remains of a transitory beauty, these widowed nights and tedious days which I pass without seeing you; and since you cannot possess them, I take them from you to offer them to Heaven, and to make, alas! but a secondary oblation of my heart, my days, and my life!

(Letters of Abelard and Heloise)

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