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Foreword

Chapter I. Of The Birthplace of Pierre Abelard and of His Parents

Chapter II. Of The Persecution He Had...

Chapter III. Of How He Came To Laon To Seek Anselm As Teacher

Chapter IV. Of The Persecution He Had From His Teacher Anselm

Chapter V. Of How He Returned to Paris and Finished the Glosses Which He Had Begun at Laon

Chapter VI. Of How, Brought Low By His Love For Heloise, He Was Wounded In Body And Soul

Chapter VII. Of The Arguments of Heloise Against Wedlock, of How None the Less He Made Her His Wife

Chapter VIII. Of The Suffering of His Body, Of How He Became A Monk in the Monastery of St. Denis and Heloise A Nun at Argenteuil

Chapter IX. Of His Book on Theology and His Persecution at the Hands of His Fellow Students of the Council Against Him

Chapter X. Of The Burning of His Book, of the Persecution He Had...

Chapter XI. Of His Teaching in the Wilderness

Chapter XII. Of the Persecution Directed Against Him By Sundry New Enemies Or, As It Were, Apostles

Chapter XIII. Of the Abbey to Which He Was Called and of the Persecution He Had...

Chapter XIV. Of the Vile Report of His Iniquity

Chapter XV. Of the Perils of His Abbey and of the Reasons for the Writing of This His Letter

The Story of My Misfortunes

tr. by Henry Adams Bellows