HISTORY 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lust
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First born son of a knight, but he didn"t want to be a knight. I fell so deeply in love with learning that i turned over to my brothers my inheritance and other rights of the eldest, and quit the court of mars to be raised at the bosom of minerva. (calamities) Often arguing against him [william] in class (calamities) from william. Sic et non (one of the first books abelard wrote) Abelard found everything super easy and the other students challenged him to make a lecture of the complicated prophecies of ezekiel on practice but solely on the intelligence i was born with (calamities) I [abelard] had no interest in their advice and told them that it was not my way to rely. After abelard left laon, he moved to paris. Priest did not make him pay rent, but wanted abelard to give his niece, heloise, tutoring lessons. Wanted his niece to learn for learning"s sake.