One point of detail not yet ruled on the existence Abelard may receive a solution which, if accepted, would open opportunities than probably pretty far beyond mere scholarly controversy that this detail has aroused until today.
After the disastrous episode of his castration, Abelard tells the story of his misfortunes, that, following his criticism of the depravity of the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Denis where he sought refuge, the abbot and monks seized the opportunity to reject it in encouraging him to resume his teaching: "very pleased with the constant daily application of my disciples, they took the opportunity to get away from them [the monks]. Vigorously pressed by their constant demand [the disciples], yielding to the intervention of the abbot and brothers, I withdrew some cella for me as I usually devote to écoles ; à celles-ci afflua une telle multitude d’écoliers, que le lieu ne suffisait pas à leur hébergement, ni la terre à leur nourriture » ( Qui ad cotidianam discipulorum nostrorum instantiam maxime gavisi occasionem nacti sunt, qua me a se removerent. Diu itaque illis instantibus atque importune pulsantibus, abbate quoque nostro et fratribus intervenientibus, ad cellam quandam recessi, scolis more solito vaccaturus. Ad quas quidem tanta scolarium multitudo confluxit, ut nec locus ospitiis nec terra sufficeret alimentis ).
Une tradition historiographique séculaire a localisé la cella occupée by Abelard in the small town of Maisoncelles -en-Brie, about fifty kilometers from Saint-Denis, but recently, Mr. Wilmore has questioned this identification, referring to the risk of this opportunity "patrimonialization a historical mistake ".
Even taking into account the hyperbolic description of the crowd of students came to collect his teaching, cella where Abelard had retired was therefore a simple rural dependency that its small size does not predispose to receive more a few people. Several commentators have assumed that this cella was located in the immediate vicinity of Paris, which could explain the influx student, while J. Benton, for his part conjectured that it was rather on the side of Nogent-sur-Seine, where she would have foreshadowed the hermitage of the Paraclete, but a little later in his autobiography, Abelard explains how, returned to the Abbey, he was forced, during a new conflict with the abbot of the monastery to escape the earth Thibaud de Champagne, nearby, where he had previously stayed in the cella in question ( ad terram comitis Proximam Theobald, ubi antea in cella moratus fueram, abscess ): thus, the search area should be restricted to Saint Denis possessions located closer to the Abbey, but on land under the Comte de Champagne.
For our part, we tried to locate this cella the territory of Messy, bordering Meldoise land under the king, the Count of Champagne and the Dammartin: the story of the possession of Abbey of St. Denis back to 775, date of its donation to the monastery by Charlemagne ; it extends throughout the Middle Ages, marked by testimony on the membership 'feudal' of this land to Champagne, as is seen particularly in Documents relating to the County of Champagne and Brie, 1172 -1361 , published by A. Longnon, then under the old regime, before knowing at the time of the French Revolution, the history of the treasure of St. Denis, a legendary dimension including the latest developments date back only a few decades.
More importantly, in addition to his membership Champagne and its relative geographic proximity to Saint-Denis (less than thirty kilometers), the land of Messy was the twelfth century e the hands of the Pig family, itself a member of the powerful 'clan' of Garlande which Abelard was protected and probably also the agent ', as recalled in particular Mr. Clanchy, following the work of RH Bautier: in this context and with this in mind our assumption that we believe should be considered for reversal of his or her confirmation.
© Yves-Andre Bourges 2011
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