Peter Abelard: The Essential Theological and Philosophical Works Peter Abelard

In literature

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse refers to the history of Héloïse and Abélard.
• Mark Twain's comedic travelogue The Innocents Abroad (1869) tells a satirical version of the story of Abélard and Héloïse.
• Étienne Gilson's historical and philosophical account of their lives, "Héloïse et Abélard", was published in France, 1938, and translated into English for a 1960 edition by the University of Michigan Press, as "Heloise and Abelard".
• Lauren Groff's short story "L. DeBard and Aliette" from her collection Delicate Edible Birds recreates the story of Héloïse and Abélard, set in 1918 New York.
• George Moore's 1921 novel Heloise and Abelard treats their entire relationship from first meeting through final parting.
• Charles Williams' 1931 novel The Place of the Lion features a character Damaris who focuses her research on Peter Abelard.
• Helen Waddell's novel Peter Abelard depicts the romance between the two.
• Marion Meade's novel Stealing Heaven depicts the romance and was adapted into a film.
• Sharan Newman's Catherine LeVendeur series of medieval mysteries feature Héloïse, Abélard and Astrolabe as occasional characters, mentors and friends of the main character, formerly a novice at the Paraclete.
• Gloria Skurzynski's 1999 novel Spider's Voice is a fictional account of Abélard and Héloïse's romance from the point of view of his mute assistant.
• Sherry Jones's 2014 novel The Sharp Hook of Love is a fictional account of Abélard and Héloïse.
• Mandy Hager's 2017 novel Heloise tells Heloise's story from childhood to death, with frequent reference to their writings.
• Rick Riordan's 2017 book The Dark Prophecy has a pair of gryphons named Heloise and Abelard.
• Luise Rinser's novel Abaelard's Liebe (German) depicts the love story of Héloïse and Abelard from the perspective of their son, Astrolabe.
• Dodie Smith's novel I Capture the Castle features a dog and a cat named Héloïse and Abélard.
• Abelard and Héloïse are referenced throughout Robertson Davies's novel The Rebel Angels.
• Henry Adams devotes a chapter to Abelard's life in Mont Saint Michel and Chartres.
• James Carroll's 2017 novel The Cloister retells the story of Abelard and Héloïse, interweaving it with the friendship of a Catholic priest and a French Jewish woman in the post-Holocaust twentieth century.
• Melvyn Bragg's 2019 novel Love Without End intertwines the legendary medieval romance of Héloïse and Abélard with a modern-day historian's struggle to reconcile with his daughter.

In art

• Héloïse et Abeilard, oil on copper, Jean-Baptiste Goyet, 1830
• Abaelardus and Heloïse surprised by Master Fulbert, oil, by Romanticist painter Jean Vignaud, 1819
• Abelard, teaching, mural at the Sorbonne by Francois Flameng
• Monument to Abelard and Heloise at Le Pallet by Sylviane and Bilal Hassan-Courgeau
• Abelard & Heloise, painting by Salvador Dalí
• The Parting of Abelard and Heloise, painting by Angelica Kauffman, c.1780

In music

• "Heloise and Abelard", a song written by SCA bard Efenwealt Wystle (aka Scott Vaughan)
• Abelard and Heloise is a 1970 soundtrack album by the British Third Ear Band.
• The lyrics of "Abelard and Heloise", featured on Seventh Angel's album The Dust of Years, are based on the couple's famous correspondence.
• The song "Heloise" by Frank Black, from the album Devil's Workshop, refers to this story.
• Scritti Politti's song, "The World You Understand (Is Over + Over + Over)", refers to this story and the interment of the two lovers at Pere Lachaise cemetery.
• The intro to the Cole Porter song "Just One of Those Things" includes "As Abelard said to Heloise, Don't forget to drop a line to me please".
• The song "World Without" by A Fine Frenzy (Alison Sudol) references them: "And Heloise, gave her whole heart to Pete, now eternally sleeps by his side"

In poetry

• François Villon mentions Héloïse and Abelard in his most famous poem "Ballade des dames du temps jadis".
• Their story is referenced in the poem "The Convent Threshold", by the Victorian English poet Christina Rossetti.
• Their story is referenced in "Eloisa to Abelard", by the English poet Alexander Pope.
• Robert Lowell's poem "Eloise and Abelard" in his poetry collection History (1973) portrays the lovers post-separation.

On stage and screen

• Ronald Millar's play Abelard & Heloise was a 1971 Broadway production at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, starring Diana Rigg and Keith Michell, script published by Samuel French, Inc, London, 1970.
• The film Stealing Heaven (1988) chronicles their story and stars Derek de Lint, Kim Thomson and Denholm Elliott.
• In the 58th episode of The Sopranos ("Sentimental Education"), Carmela Soprano finds a copy of The Letters of Abelard & Héloïse while using Mr. Wegler's bathroom. The book alludes both to the impossibility of Carmela and Mr. Wegler's romantic affair, and arguably, and ironically, to the doomed platonic love between Carmela and her daughter, Meadow: for many years it was a mother-daughter tradition to have tea under the portrait of Eloise at the Plaza Hotel.
• Anne Carson's 2005 collection Decreation includes a screenplay about Abelard and Héloïse.
• Henry Miller uses Abelard's "Foreword to Historia Calamitatum" as the motto of Tropic of Capricorn (1938).
• Howard Brenton's play In Extremis: The Story of Abelard & Heloise was premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in 2006.[69]
• In Being John Malkovich, John Cusack's character performs a puppet show of Abelard & Heloise on a street corner, which gets him beaten up by an irate father due to its sexual suggestiveness.
• Michael Shenefelt's stage play, Heloise, 2019