Pierre Abelard

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. …

Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating.Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, a…