THE ROMANCE Orlando OF ABELARD AND HELOISE. BY Ο O. W. WIGHT, TRANSLATOR OF COUSIN'S "HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY." "Mès ge ne croi mie, par m'ame, C'onques puis fust une tel fame." Roman de la Rose, t. ii., p. 218 NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY. M. DCCC.LIII. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. GRAH AM 16F'37. TO EDWIN P. WHIPPLE, THE FIRST OF ALL OUR ESSAYISTS, THE ELOQUENT REVIEWER THIS AND CATHOLIC CRITIC, "Bomance of Abelard and Heloise," WHICH HAS BEEN THE OCCUPATION OF MANY PLEASANT, WHILE MAKING A SERIOUS STUDY OF ABELARD'S PHILOSOPHY, IS DEDICATED. NOT ONLY AS A TOKEN OF ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS AND ENERGY, AND ESTEEM. CONTENTS. PAGE IV.-An Episode: the First Crusade........ V.-To Paris.-Paris at the beginning of the Twelfth Century.. 35 VI.-Abelard studies at the School of Notre-Dame, and quarrels VIII.-Philosophy and Sickness..... IX.-Argenteuil.-A fair Pupil of the Nuns.. X.-The Condition of Woman at the beginning of the Twelfth |