Historia Calamitatum

The Story of My Misfortunes

AuthorPeter Abelard

LanguageMedieval Latin

Yearc. 1132

CountryFrance

GenreBiography / Memoir / Reportage

christianitymedieval europe

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Historia Calamitatum, also known as Abaelardi ad Amicum Suum Consolatoria, is an autobiographical work in Latin by Peter Abelard (1079–1142), a medieval French pioneer of scholastic philosophy. The work, written in 1132 or soon after, is one of the first autobiographical works in medieval Western Europe, written in the form of a letter.— Wikipedia