Peter Abelard antiquity for their virtues and for their discovery by the use of reason of many fundamental aspects of Christian revelation. At some point in this time Abelard wrote, among other things, his famous "Historia Calamitatum". This moved Héloïse to write her first Letter; the first being followed by the two other Letters, in which she finally accepted the part of resignation, which, now as a brother to a sister, Abelard commended to her. Sometime before 1140, Abelard published his masterpiece, "Ethica" or "Scito te ipsum" (Know Thyself), where he analyzes the idea of sin and that actions are not what
Te lucis ante terminum Balfour Gardiner composed the anthem "Evening Hymn" on both the Latin text and an English translation, for mixed choir and organ. Te lucis ante terminum Te lucis ante terminum (English: "To Thee before the close of day") is an old Latin hymn in long metre. It is the hymn at Compline in the "Roman Breviary". The authorship of Ambrose of Milan, for which Pimont contends, is not admitted by the Benedictine editors or by Luigi Biraghi. The hymn is found in a hymnary in Irish script (described by Clemens Blume in his "Cursus", etc.) of the eighth or early ninth