Jul 22, 2025
recently I came across the “Great Loves” by Penguin Books and had the great chance to get two of the books from the series in secondhand 💔 reblog is ok, don’t repost / use
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recently I came across the “Great Loves” by Penguin Books and had the great chance to get two of the books from the series in secondhand 💔 reblog is ok, don’t repost / use
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Peter Abelard (1079-1142) - Planctus VI "Dolorum solatium"
Ensemble: Per-Sonat - Conductor: Sabine Lutzenberger
"You are buried inside my breast for eternity, from which tomb you will never emerge as long as I live. There you lie, there you rest."
-Peter Abelard to Héloïse d’Argenteuil (aka Héloïse du Paraclet)
This is from one of the "lost letters" credited to Abelard and Heloise. Honestly? I find the lost letters more fun.
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After receiving one of Heloise's passionate letters (with things tumblr would surely flag if I repeated), Abelard, who had moved on, started his reply with "To Heloise, his dearly beloved sister in Christ, from Abelard, her brother in him" and I think about it more often than I should. My jaw dropped when I read it.
If you're not familiar with Abelard and Heloise and you enjoy steamy, forbidden, real-life medieval love affairs, I recommend looking into them!
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.
Peter Abelard and Heloise’s love story is one of the most famous romances of the Middle Ages, but beyond their passionate letters, Abelard a
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Whoever seeks dominion over his subjects rather than service to them, who works to be feared, not loved, and being swollen with pride in his authority [...] imitates the princes of this world. [... W]e should not take pride in names but look to humility in everything.
Peter Abelard, in his Rule for Religious Women, trans. Betty Radice
Original Latin: Reges igitur gentium imitatur, quisquis in subjectis dominium appetit magis quam ministerium, et timeri magis quam amari satagit, et de prælationis suæ magisterio intumescens amat primos recubitus in cenis [...] nec nominibus gloriemur, et in omnibus humilitati provideatur.
Héloïse d’Argenteuil in a letter to her former lover Pierre Abélard, nineteen years after their forced separation and entrance into religious life.
William of Saint-Thierry. Fragment from a letter to Bernard of Clairvaux (maculature). One sheet of sturdy parchment, 30 x 19 cm. Written on both sides in two columns with auxiliary lines. Gothic letter with closed a, long s and f with tails. Many ligatures. Dark brown and red ink. Rubricated. Probably ca. 1400. The sheet was probably used as binding reinforcement, with a strong fold. Two holes in the margin may have a natural cause.
* Chapters from De sacramento altaris, from …’rerum istaque diversitatem caritas redigit in unitatem’ up to and including ‘male intellecta materiam errandi vel contendendi perdi[tis videntur prestare]’. The chapters are written in red: Capitulum XI and duodecimum (‘chapter eleven’ and ‘twelfth’; in the Patrologie caput X and XI!). This text can be found in part 180 of the Patrologia (1855), p. 357-359. The text is not exactly the same.
Higher theology from the beginning of the twelfth century. The prolific Willam, abbot of Saint-Thierry (an abbey near Reims), was the man who took up arms against Peter Abelard and was at the beginning of the movement that had his writings condemned as heretical.