Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard (Petrus Abaelardus, Petrus Abailard, Pierre Abélard).

Primary sources

• Carmen ad Astralabium. Edited by J. M. A. Rubingh-Bosscher in Peter Abelard: Carmen ad Astralabium, a Critical Edition. Groningen: phil. diss. Rijksuniversiteit 1987.
• Collationes a. k. a. Dialogus inter Philosophum, Iudaeum, et Christianum.Edited by Giovanni Orlandi, with introduction, translation, and notes by John Marenbon, in Peter Abelard: Collationes, Oxford University Press 2001.
• Commentaria in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos. Edited by Eligius M. Buytaert in Petri Abaelardi opera theologica. Corpus christianorum (continuatio mediaevalis) Vol. 11. Brepols: Turnholt 1969, 389–340.
• Dialectica. Edited by L. M. De Rijk in Petrus Abaelardus: Dialectica, Assen: Van Gorcum 1970 (second edition).
• Epistolae: Ep. 1 edited by Monfrin (see the entry below for the Historia calamitatum); Epp. 2–5 edited by J. T. Muckle, Mediaeval Studies 15 (1953) 68–94; Epp. 6–7, edited by J. T. Muckle, Mediaeval Studies 17 (1955) 241-281; Ep. 8, edited by T. P. McLaughlin, Mediaeval Studies 18 (1956) 242–297; Epp. 9–14 edited by E. R. Smits in Peter Abelard:
• Letters IX–XIV, Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit 1983; Ep. 15 edited by Josef Reiners, BGPTM 8 (1910) 63–80; Ep. 16, edited by Victor Cousin and Charles Jourdain, Petri Abaelardi opera Vol. 1 (Paris 1849) 703–707, corrected against Van Den Eynde, Antonianum 38 (1963) 219; Ep. 17, edited by Charles Burnett, Mittellateinisch Jahrbuch 21 (1986), 152–155; Apologia contra Bernardum (Ne iuxta Boethianum), edited by Eligius M. Buytaert in CCCM 12 359–368;
• Epistola contra Bernardum edited by Raymond Klibansky, Medieval and Renaissance Studies 5 (1961), 1–27; Confessio fidei “Uniuersis” edited by Charles Burnett, Mediaeval Studies 48 (1986), 182–189. Ethica seu Scito teipsum. Edited by R. M. Ilgner in Petri Abaelardi opera theologica. Corpus christianorum (continuatio mediaevalis) Vol. 190. Brepols: Turnholt 2001.
• Expositio orationis dominicae. Edited by Charles Burnett, “Expositio orationis dominicae ‘Multorum legimus orationes”’ in R´evue Benedictine 95 (1985) 60–72.
• Expositio symboli Apostolorum. Edited by Victor Cousin and Charles Jourdain, Petri Abaelardi opera Vol. 1 (Paris 1849) 603–615.
• Expositio fidei in symbolum Athanasii. Edited by Victor Cousin and Charles Jourdain, Petri Abaelardi opera Vol. 1 (Paris 1849) 615–617. Hexameron. Edited by Mary F. Romig in A Critical Edition of Peter Abelard’s “Expositio in Hexameron”, Doctoral dissertation in History, University of Southern California, January 1981.
• Historia calamitatum. Edited by Jacques Monfrin in Ab´elard, Historia calamitatum: texte et commentaires, J. Vrin: Paris 1974 (fourth edition), 62–109.
• Hymnarius Paraclitensis. Edited by Chrysogonus Waddell in Hymn Collections from the Paraclete, Vol. 2. Trappist Monastery, Ky.: Gethsemani Abbey (Cistercian Liturgy series) 1987.
• Introductiones parvulorum. Edited by Mario Dal Pra in Pietro Abelardo: Scritti di logica, Firenze 1969 (second edition).
• Logica ‘ingredientibus’. LI 1: Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge. Edited by Bernhard Geyer in Beitr¨age zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters 21 (1). Aschendorff: Munster 1919. LI 2: Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories. Edited by Bernhard Geyer in Beitr¨age zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters 21 (2). Aschendorff: Munster 1921. LI 3: Commentary on Aristotle’s De interpretatione. Edited by Klaus Jacobi and Christian Strub, forthcoming in the Corpus christianorum continuatio medievalis. LI 7: Commentary on Boethius’s De topicis differentiis. Edited by Mario Dal Pra in Pietro Abelardo: Scritti di logica, Firenze 1969 (second edition).
• Logica ‘nostrorum petitioni sociorum’. Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge. Edited by Bernhard Geyer in Beitr¨age zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters 21 (4). Aschendorff: Munster 1933. Planctus. Planctus 1, 4, 6: edited by Peter Dronke, Poetic Individality in the Middle Ages (London 1986). Planctus 2, 5: edited by Giuseppe Vecchi, Pietro Abelardo, I “Planctus” (Modena 1951). Planctus 3: edited by Wolfram von den Steinen, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 4 (1967), 122– 144. There are several modern recordings.
• Problemata Heloıssae cum Petri Abaelardi solutionibus. Edited by Victor Cousin and Charles Jourdain, Petri Abaelardi opera, Vol. 1 (Paris 1849): 237–294.
• Sententiae secundum Magistrum Petrum. Edited by Lorenzo Minio-Paluello in Twelfth-Century Logic: Texts and Studies, Vol. 2 (Abaelardiana inedita), Roma 1958.
• Sermones. Edited by Paola De Santis in I sermoni di Abelardo per le monache del Paracleto, Leuven University Press 2002. (Mediaevalia Lovaniensa ser. 1, studia 31.)
• Sic et non. Edited by Blanche Boyer and Richard McKeon in Peter Abailard: Sic et Non. A Critical Edition. University of Chicago Press 1977.
• Soliloquium. Edited by Charles Burnett in “Peter Abelard’s ‘Soliloquium’: A Critical Edition” in Studi Medievali 25 (1984), 857–894.
• Theologia ‘summi boni’. Edited by Eligius M. Buytaert and Constant Mews in Petri Abaelardi opera theologica. Corpus christianorum (continuatio mediaevalis). Vol. 13. Brepols: Turnholt 1987.
• Theologia christiana. Edited by EligiusM. Buytaert in Petri Abaelardi opera theologica. Corpus christianorum (continuatio mediaevalis). Vol. 12. Brepols: Turnholt 1969.
• Theologia ‘scholarium’. Edited by Eligius M. Buytaert and Constant Mews in Petri Abaelardi opera theologica. Corpus christianorum (continuatio mediaevalis). Vol. 13. Brepols: Turnholt 1987.
• Tractatus de intellectibus. Edited by Patrick Morin in Ab´elard: Des intellections. Paris: J. Vrin 1994.

Notability

This philosopher has 8 pages in the Blackwell Companion. 1079 1114 France 1142 St Marcel France