Present year
1142
Same year. Nothing more.
In 1142 the Song general Yue Fei was killed in prison after a peace with the Jin. In the same year Peter Abelard died at St. Marcel. Two deaths. No arrow. Neither was found because we were looking for 42.
What, besides a calendar, do a Song general and a Latin theologian share?
Same year. Nothing more.
Hangzhou
Yue Fei killed
A Song general, a peace with the Jin, a death in January. Later memory made him a paragon. The killing is 1142. The legend is later.
St. Marcel
Abelard dies
A logician already condemned, dying in a Cluniac house in April. The letters are earlier. Death is not a doctrine.
EAST
Yue Fei killed
Yue Fei, a Song general in the wars against the Jin, was imprisoned on a treason charge and killed after a negotiated peace. Later memory made him a paragon of loyalty. The killing is 1142. The legend is later.
Before
Loss of the north; Yue’s campaigns.
Why
A war party in the way of a settlement with Jin.
Who
Yue Fei; the minister Qin Hui; the Southern Song court.
Yue Fei · Qin Hui · Emperor Gaozong of Song
What
Judicial murder after a peace.
How
Charge, prison, death. The exact manner is argued.
The hinge
The hinge is a peace that required a death.
Where, and when
The Southern Song capital region. January 1142.
27 or 28 January 1142 · Hangzhou, Southern Song
What they knew
The court knew it was choosing peace over a general.
What they could not know
The later temple, the tattoo legend, the schoolbook hero.
Source object
Song histories and the later cult
Official history plus a patriotic afterlife. The afterlife is not the 1142 object.
The object survives.
First record
Song documentary tradition; later hagiography must be separated.
After
Posthumous rehabilitation. A tomb and a story.
Later retelling
Loyalty as national myth. The myth is not the hanging.
Limit
Later folklore (the tattoo, the exact words) is not 1142 evidence.
What it does not prove
Does not connect 1142 to Abelard.
Why it entered
Included as independently major in Chinese history. Not paired with Abelard as fate.
How we know
- 1. Standard Song historiography and modern discussion of Yue Fei’s imprisonment and death, January 1142, after peace with the Jin. Later cult material is separated from the date.
Method
independent firsthard
Not important to the existing work before this search.
WEST
Abelard dies
Peter Abelard, logician and theologian, died in 1142. His condemned work and his letters with Heloise are earlier. Death is not a doctrine. It is a date.
Before
Sic et non, the Paris schools, the Council of Sens, the letters.
Why
Illness after transfer from Cluny. Not a new trial.
Who
Abelard; the Cluniac care of Peter the Venerable; Heloise.
Peter Abelard · Heloise · Peter the Venerable
What
The death of a already famous, already condemned teacher.
How
A recorded death in a monastic house.
The hinge
The hinge is an end, not an origin.
Where, and when
A Cluniac priory. 21 April 1142.
21 April 1142 · St. Marcel, near Chalon-sur-Saône
What they knew
His contemporaries knew the name. They did not know the later Abelard of romance.
What they could not know
Nineteenth-century Heloise-and-Abelard as a couple-myth.
Source object
Cluniac notices and the letter corpus
The letters are earlier. The death date is a necrology fact.
The object survives.
First record
Monastic record; later vitae.
After
Burial eventually at the Paraclete.
Later retelling
A love story swallowing a logician.
Limit
Death year is not the year of his work.
What it does not prove
Does not make 1142 a mind-year.
Why it entered
Included as independently dated. Not as a pair with Yue Fei except the calendar.
How we know
- 1. Peter Abelard and Heloise. Letter corpus, earlier than 1142. Death at St. Marcel, 21 April 1142, in Cluniac notices.
Method
independent firsthard
Not important to the existing work before this search.
The aperture
Present as two independent biographical facts. Not a trans-Eurasian mechanism.
Regions checked
- Europe
- Middle East and North Africa
- East Asia
- South Asia
- Africa
- the Americas
- Central Asia
Included / excluded
- Included: Yue Fei; Abelard’s death
- Excluded: A designed Eurasian pair. Same year is not a relation.
41 | 42 | 43
Same century. Same research threshold. Matched frames. Neither pane brighter except that the middle year is the selected aperture.
1141
Neighbor
Song-Jin war and European school life continue. Not empty.
1142
Aperture
Present as two independent biographical facts. Not a trans-Eurasian mechanism.
1143
Neighbor
Not empty. Second Crusade is later (1147).