Peter Ablelard's autobiography is subjected to a series of analyses from the perspectives of different contemporary literary theories - aesthetics of reception, Foucault, gender studies, rhetorical stylistic analysis, psychology of literature, cultural studies, and deconstruction.

Peter Ablelard's autobiography, the "Historia calamitatum", is possibly one of the best-known medieval texts, especially because of the story of his love for Heloise which it recounts. At the end of the 20th century, there was so much controversy about the authenticity of the documents concerning Abelard and Heloise that the critical interpretation of the texts was relagated out of this impasse. In it, the famous text is subjected to a series of analyses from the perspectives of seven different 20th century literary theories (aesthetics of reception, Foucault, gender studies, rhetorical stylistic analysis, psychology of literature, cultural studies, and deconstruction).