An Annotated Bibliography of Printed and Online Primary Sources for the Middle Ages

Abelard, Peter (Pierre)
lived c. 1079-1142

Peter Abelard was a philosopher, teacher, theologian, and logician, and considered to be one of the greatest thinkers of the Middle Ages. Today, he is most famous for having a tragic affair with his gifted student, Heloise. In the Middle Ages, he was known for his contributions to scholastic philosophy: his ideas of dialectic provide some of the basis of scholasticism. He was a well-respected teacher at the University of Paris: students flocked to Paris to hear his lectures. Some of his theological ideas about the Trinity were challenged and condemned by the Church.

More information:

• Wikipedia
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

OMSB Records by Abelard, Peter:

• Romig, M., ed.; Luscombe, D.E., ed.; Burnett, C., ed., Petrus Abaelardus Opera Theologica V Expositio in Hexameron Abbreviatio Petri Abaelardi Expositionis in Hexameron (Turnhout: Brepols [Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalis 15], 2004).
• Marenbon, John, trans.; Orlandi, Giovanni, ed.., Collationes (Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001).
• Luscombe, D.E., trans., Ethics (Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Oxford UP at the Clarendon Press, 1971).
• Luscombe, D.E., ed.; Barrow, J, ed.; Burnett, C., ed.; Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., ed.; Mews, C.J., ed. , Petrus Abelardus Opera Theologica VI Sententie Librum Sententiarum (Turnhout: Brepols [Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 14], 2007).
• Carey, William, ed., Abaelardi ad Amicum Suum Consolatoria (The Latin Library Website, 2004).
• Morton, Vera, ed., trans.; Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, ed., Guidance for Women in 12th-Century Convents (Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003).
• Mews, Constant, ed., The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999).
• Blamires, Alcuin, ed; Pratt, Karen ed.; Marx, C.W. ed., Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).
• Thibaut, George, ed., Historia Calamitatum (Wikisource. The Free Library., 2008).
• Fairweather, Eugene R., ed., trans., A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press (The Library of Christian Classics volume X), 1956).
• Bellows, Henry Adams, trans.; McKay, Paul, ed., Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes (Reprint edition. New York: Macmillan, 1922 [Rpt. 1972]).
• Radice, Betty, trans., The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (New York: Penguin Classics. 2003 revised edition., 1974).
• Graham, Angus, ed., Dialogus Inter Philosophum, Iudaeum, et Christianum (The Latin Library Website, 2004).
• Boyer, Blanche, ed.; McKeon, Richard, ed., Sic et Non: A Critical Edition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976).
• Spade, Paul, trans., Ethical Writings: His Ethics or "Know Yourself" and His Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew, and a Christian (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1995).
• Ziolkowski, Jan M., trans., Letters of Peter Abelard: Beyond the Personal (Washington DC: Catholic University Press, 2007).
• Ilgner, Rainier M., ed., Petri Abaelardi Opera Theologica IV Scito Te Ipsum (Turnhout: Brepols [Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalis 190], 2001).