Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women before 1400 - Season 1 Episode 28 Heloise Embraces the New Philosophy
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Discover the story of Heloise, a woman who embodied the passion for ideas that would define the time known as the “12th-century renaissance.” Her thirst for knowledge, and her scandalous love affair with the teacher Peter Abelard, resulted in years of correspondence that captures spiritual and intellectual ideas that foreshadow modern philosophy.