Historia Calamitatum - The Story of My Misfortunes

Peter Abelard (c. 1079-1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer and musician. In Catholic theology, he is best known for his development of the concept of limbo, and his introduction of the moral influence theory of atonement. He is considered (alongside Augustine of Hippo) to be the most significant forerunner of the modern self-reflective a...