Dr Eleanor Janega
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1,236 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
Dr Eleanor Janega’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So, I mean, like, say what you will, they're really dedicated.
They did actually love one another.
Yeah, which is, I mean, I'm like, Eloise, I want so much better for you.
But she's this absolutely brilliant woman.
And she's the abbess.
And she's the abbess, which you don't get to unless you're very, very clever.
No.
very clearly she's also kind of like, well, I kind of got the best of both worlds because she gets to have this life of the mind.
which she wouldn't necessarily have if she had become just a wife and mother.
It's very difficult to negotiate that sort of academic freedom, that ability to write things down.
And, I mean, there's so much more that Peter Abelard gets into.
He's accused of heresy by St.
Bernard of Clairvaux, one of my most hated people from the Middle Ages.
Why?
Basically, he writes a really complex theology of the Trinity.
And St.
Bernard of Clairvaux also just doesn't like Peter Abelard very much because Peter Abelard is personally unpleasant.
Yes.
And so Peter Abelard is like, come debate me, bro.
Come debate me about the nature of the Trinity.
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