tual promise from the many that wealthy parents sent to the Church for an education. That worthiness, however, was supposed to lie along the lines of acceptance of all the Church's teachings. This included, of course, the relations between the sexes. Women were never to be the equal of men. Women could become nuns, but never priests. The Church was then (and is today) a patriarchal society. It is unusual, perhaps, for the attraction Abelard felt toward Heloise, because it was more than a physical attraction. In his autobiographical work of his "misfortune" Abelard writes: "NOW there dwelt in that same city of Paris a certain young girl named Heloise, the neice (sic) of a canon who was called Fulbert. Her uncle's love for her was equalled only by his desire that she should have the best education which he could possibly procure for her. Of no mean beauty, she stood out above a
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