Also known as "Marriage is the Grave of Love" Zhang Baotong 2016.7.4

The cool summer breeze blows from Wales in Great Britain across the English Channel to Brittany on the west coast of France. The typical maritime climate www.biquge.info Breton enjoys a cool and humid comfort. The sun looked down on the earth with a smile, and a few white clouds fluttered slowly in the clear sky. The sea breeze swept across the coast, blowing as far as the eye could see from the peninsula, and finally disappeared into the depths of the Brittany landmass.

This is a beautiful and fertile land in the border region of France. Moist air and showers of rain have transformed the vast and bright Brittany region into patches of green grass, golden flowers and dense woods. If you follow the sea breeze and follow the country road from the western coast towards the interior of Brittany, you will definitely feel like you have stepped into a fairyland.

Throughout the Middle Ages, Brittany was always as beautiful as a beautiful and charming French girl. However, the "dark ages" that preceded it were hundreds of years before that, when there were many wars, and the fierce Welsh crossed the English Channel like a long summer wind to fight the local Gauls for turf. Because of the frequent wars, the ancient culture was destroyed, and the scene of prosperity disappeared for a time. In the midst of war, people carved out new lives with axes, slashes, and swords, living in the custom of the barbarians. Theaters, baths, and roads are no longer being built. Grain harvests failed year after year, the peasants suffered from hunger, and the nobles roasted wild boar with fire and spices. People completely ignore the marital relationship, and many do not want a legal wife at all, living a life of debauchery and ** like a horse or a donkey. To this day, there is still a local story that "the Queen of Ulster of Ireland led her court wife to visit Kucchurain." They say that the queen and her wives were naked, and that their skirts were lifted to show their lower bodies as a sign of great respect for the legendary Irish hero Trichu Rayne.

The reason why they relish this story is because they are obsessed with that savage and crazy way of life. For many who aspire to a barbaric life, war and plunder are the most honorable undertakings, and labor and farming are manifestations of incompetence. Because war allows them to expand their territory and rob them of wealth and women through constant conquest.

In today's Brittany, there are many Welsh and Gauls, all of whom are descendants of the Welsh and Gauls, but a long life has brought them together and are collectively known as the Bretons. And the distinction between them is no longer between Welsh and Gaul, but rich and poor.

Between the eleventh and twelfth centuries was an era of academic revival in Europe. With the progress of the Great Translation Movement, those Europeans who had escaped barbarism were ignited with a passion for knowledge, as much as a religious fervor. Because of the rise of the church, which indoctrinated people from barbaric customs, advocated a pure life, and demanded that the clergy adhere to celibacy. They take the indulgent tendencies in life as a sin, preach asceticism, preach the notion of contempt for money, oppose luxury, preach the notion that all pleasure is sinful, and punish them. The Church also opposed the beauty of costumes, even personal hygiene, the Puritans against singing and dancing, against carnivals, against April Fools' Day. Thus, the winds of brutal and warlike barbarism died out, and the winds of asceticism began to prevail.

It was a time when religious beliefs were flourishing and religious fervor was on the rise. In the wilderness and sparsely populated countryside of Brittany, and even in the valleys of the mountains, you can see small churches rising from the ground and towering over a wild mountain wilderness. However, the church seems to be a symbol of civilization and a silent calling. When a poor priest or priest came to a desert and asked the local bishop for a piece of land, they built a small church or even a simple hut and practiced in it. Gradually, people who came to the church to pray and worship made a way in front of the church door, bringing more people here. Over time, the chapel or hut becomes a magnificent Gothic building.

The clergy and priests of the church were generally literate and learned intellectuals, who, in addition to their daily practice and preaching, had to participate in daily agricultural work, planting crops and harvesting potatoes, but they could collect some taxes and rent the land to the peasants. Churches and monasteries are centers of local cultural medicine. They can run schools, practice medicine for the people, and charge a fee. They also often received donations from the wealthy and common people, and received a certain amount of money by placing their children in churches and monasteries.

Because churches and monasteries are places of instruction, all students are indoctrinated and educated in the Christian mind from an early age, and they grow up to see Christ and the church as a means of personal struggle and success. The doctrine of Christ inculcates the norms of Christian morality and doctrine. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are all inspired by God and are the only supreme standard for Christian faith and behavior. The saints are required to strictly follow the creeds of holiness, righteousness, love for neighbors, almsgiving, fasting, prayer, love of enemies, entering into the light, no love of money, no judgment, sincerity and no deception, and hearing and doing. Those who contradict the truth of the Bible are condemned as heretics and are punished accordingly.

In this wilderness where the Welsh and Gauls fought and fought for centuries, in this remote frontier far from the civilization of Paris, religion and virtue are springing up in this land, and the vain pointed churches that have been erected in the wilderness and on the edge of the town are quietly changing the lives and customs of the people here. It was here, 900 years ago, in 1079, that a representative of the 12th-century Renaissance in Europe was born.

In that year, a boy named Pierre Abelard was born in Le Pale, a small town not far from Brittany Nans. His father, Berengar, was a well-to-do local nobleman. Mother Lucia was a beautiful woman. The boy was the eldest son in the family, and his future life showed him a beautiful vision. He would either inherit the wealthy family business as the eldest son or become a clergyman of the Catholic Church.

However, the boy was a genius. From an early age, he was fascinated by the "three arts" of grammar, rhetoric, and logic, which are called the "free arts", and the "four arts" of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. This was a compulsory course for every noble child of that era. His interest in these subjects reached the point of obsession and showed such great talent that, at the age of ten, he considered himself a disciple of Aristotle.