Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women Before 1400

Heloise Embraces the New Philosophy (1x28)

Air date: Jan 01, 2019

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 scandalous love affair with the teacher Peter Abelard—resulted in years of correspondence that captures spiritual and intellectual ideas that foreshadow modern philosophy.