https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/story-of-my-misfortunes-or-historia-calamitatum-the-by-pierre-abelard-1079-1142--7092257Modes 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, where he informs his
correspondent: "(I)n comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that
yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily."
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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, where he informs his
correspondent: "(I)n comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that
yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily."
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