num_pages: 96
description: An enthusiastic and daring thinker relates a spellbinding story of his philosophical and spiritual enlightenment — and the tale of his tragic personal life as well. Peter Abélard paints an absorbing portrait of monastic and scholastic life in 12th-century Paris and recounts one of history's most famous love stories, his doomed romance with Heloise.
language: English
title: The Story of My Misfortunes: The Autobiography of Peter Abélard
titlecomplete: The Story of My Misfortunes: The Autobiography of Peter Abélard
genres: Biography, Medieval, Classics, France, History, Philosophy, Religion, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 531
publisher: Macmillan