Describe social and cultural pressures placed on Abelard and Heloise.

Using Abelard’s Historia Calamitatum and Heloise’s first letter to Abelard, explore the social and cultural pressures placed on Abelard and Heloise. As with the other primary source analysis papers, you need to set the authors of these pieces into their historical context. Topics potentially worth exploring in this paper include high medieval family structures, intellectual life, religious institutions, and attitudes toward sex and sexuality.