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LibriVox recording of The Story of My Misfortunes or Historia Calamitatum , by Peter Abelard. Read by Martin Geeson. Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course does the very concept of Self. Peter Abelard, the medieval philosopher and composer, here gives a concise but vivid survey of his notoriously calamitous life. The work is couched in the form of a letter to an afflicted friend. Abelard's abrasively competitive, often arrogant personality emerges at once in the brief Foreword, whe
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- April 25, 2026
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The Story of My Misfortunes by Peter Abelard
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