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Historical difficulties and contested events

Note 23 — ABELARD AND ELOISA.

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This decree of the council is delivered in terms sufficiently damaging to the reputation of the convent of which Eloisa was prioress: “In communi audientiâ conclamatum est super enormitate et infamiâ cujusdam monasterii sanctimonialium quod dicitur Argentolium in quo paucæ moniales multiplici infamiâ ad ignominiam sui ordinis degentes, multo tempore spurcâ et infami conversatione omnem ejusdem loci affinitatem fœdaverant.” (Gallia Christiana, Vol. VII. p. 52.)

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