Heloise and Abelard - Letter 2 - Married Love and Religious Life - Sadler's Lectures

27/10/2025 16 min
Heloise and Abelard - Letter 2 - Married Love and Religious Life - Sadler's Lectures

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Episode Synopsis

This lecture discusses key ideas from the sequence of letters between two great Medieval intellectuals, lovers, and religious Heloise D'Argenteuil and Peter Abelard

It focuses specifically on the second letter, which is by Heloise. It discusses the arguments that she advances in the letter, which center on her view that they can continue to enjoy their married relationship through writing letters to each other, even though after Abelard's castration both of them took religious vows and began monastic life.

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