Astralabe son of Abelard: the lost child of medieval Europe’s most famous love affair
Introduction to Astralabe son of Abelard In the autumn of 1118, a woman in labour was sheltered in a house in Le Pallet, a small Breton settlement ten miles east of Nantes. She was not Breton and she had not come willingly. Héloïse, the most learned woman in Paris and the secret wife of the […]