Compass

A Strange Landscape - Episode 3 The Saint and the Scholar. (1996x9)

Air date: Apr 21, 1996

A five part series examining the medieval mind through stories from the Middle Ages. The fierce battle between rational theologist Peter Abelard and St. Bernard of Clairvaux is documented in this look at the council of Sens of 1140AD. The public disputation between these two men is augmented further by the story of Peter Abelard’s tragic romance with the learned Heloise which not only made him more enemies but eventually led to his painful castration.