Historia Calamitatum

The Story of My Misfortunes

Author

Peter Abelard

Language

Medieval Latin

Year

c. 1132

Country

France

Genre

Biography / Memoir / Reportage

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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.