[ab-uh-lahrd; Fr. a-bey-lar] 
Pierre [pee-air; Fr. pyer] , (Peter Abelard ), 1079–1142, French scholastic philosopher, teacher, and theologian. His love affair with Heloïse is one of the famous romances in history. |
| Ab·e·lard (āb'ə-lärd') French theologian, philosopher, and composer whose nominalist application of the principles of ancient Greek logic to the doctrines of the medieval Catholic Church led to charges of heresy. He had a love affair with his pupil Héloise, whom he secretly married after she bore him a child; her family was angered and had him castrated, after which he became a monk. |