Heloise d’Argenteuil (lived from about 1100 to 1164) was the founding abbess of the Oratory of the Paraclete, founded in 1125 in Ferreux-Quincey, France. An influential leader in women’s monasticism, Heloise of the Paraclete was a learned woman, a nun, and a writer. Early in her professional career, she took Peter Abelard as her teacher and her lover. Academic scholarship is finally recognizing Heloise of the Paraclete to be an eminent thinker and leader in the Middle Ages and throughout all herstory.
Everyone today should listen attentively to the voice of the learned, articulate, feminine medieval woman Heloise expressing her love to Peter Abelard. … Read the post Heloise loved Abelard with a big-hearted feminine love