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Michael Clanchy introduces the reader to medieval life through the experience of Peter Abelard, the master of the Paris schools whose career included seducing Heloise (his student), being castrated, accused of treason, condemned as a heretic (twice) as well as writing his memoirs - Reviews: M. T. Clanchy is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He taught at the University of Glasgow He is the author of From Memory to Written Record: England (Blackwell second edition, ) and Abelard: A Medieval Life (Blackwell, ).Brand: Wiley-Blackwell. Michael T. Clanchy is a Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has also taught at the University of Glasgow, and is well known for his books, such as From Memory to Written Record (; revised and expanded editions and a study of the triumph of literacy in medieval England), England /5.

Michael Clanchy introduces the reader to medieval life through the experience of Peter Abelard, the master of the Paris schools, whose career included, seducing Heloise (his student), being castrated, accused of treason, condemned as a heretic (twice), as well as writing his memoirs - his "story of calamities". "Abelard: A Medieval Life" is a scholarly, yet ultimately readable, biography of this most fascinating of medieval scholars. With its superb eye for detail, the text, one of the only to be released on abelard in the last decades, is likely to become a new standard of the subject for the foreseeable future. Abelard by M. T. Clanchy. Michael Clanchy introduces the reader to medieval life through the experience of Peter Abelard, the master of the Paris schools. GET BOOK! Abelard s Love by Luise Rinser.

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