Peter+Abelard+and+Heloise

1200s: universities and intellectual life is born (Jotischky, 66) Famous student-teacher relationship

Peter-Abelard: renegade teacher-- propounded ideas that it was Christ's love, example and preaching not death that redeemed mankind becomes private teacher of a young woman named Heloise and convinces her uncle to let him be her private teacher. gets her pregnant. is castrated by agents of her aristocratic uncle.

as a teacher: questioning of Christian dogma and recognizing that faith transcends rational thought his castration: demonstrates the aristocratic mentality of honor and revenge still prevails