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Episode 6: The not-so-Dark Ages, medieval intellectuals, and freethinkers
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
Abelard's Life and Work
Abelard was castrated after a gang led by filbert snuck into abelar's room and put him in his place. He took refuge in the abbe of saint denis, from where he and louise would continue their love affair through letters. Abelard feared the affair would interfere with his career, so they married in secret to kill all rumors. Louise joined a convent but the couple had forgotten about filbert. In 11 21, a senate in soissons condemned his works as heretical, and forced him to burn them and publicly recant. Around 11 26, a bellar, the abbot of a monastery in brittany, tried to poison him
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