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Often appears with: teaching theology and secular arts · students flock to lectures · monastic and ascetic life · censorship and the press · assemblies, councils, and senates · abbey of st. denis
Usually: narrative (1) · injustice endured (1) · indignation (1)
Clerics urge Abelard to teach theology and the poor after his wound, but he finds the abbey of St. Denis worldly and scandalous; he moves to a hut to lecture, then faces accusations about teaching secular books and theology.
smite so lofty a head? Why then was I wedded Only to bring thee to woe? Receive now my sorrow, The price I so gladly pay." (Lucan, "Pharsalia," viii, 94.) With these words on her lips did she go forthwith to the altar, and lifted therefrom the veil, which had been blessed by the bishop, and before them all she took the vows of the religious life. For my part, scarcely had I recovered from my wound when clerics sough…