Bernard of Cluny

Bernard of Cluny
(twelfth century)
   Poet and Polemicist.
   Little is known of his life except that he was a monk at the influential Benedictine house at Cluny. He is remembered as the author of a magnificent satirical poem entitled De Contemptu Mundi. In it he mocked the monastic corruption of his time and contrasted the short-lived pleasures of this life with the joys of the world to come. Several well-known hymns, such as ‘Jerusalem the golden’ and ‘Brief life is here our portion’, are based on verses from the poem.
   Bernard of Cluny, De Contemptu Mundi, edited and translated by H.C. Hoskier (1929);
   G.J. Englehardt, ‘The De Contemptu Mundi of Bernardus Morvalensis’, Mediaeval Studies, xxii (1960), xxvi (1964) and xxix (1967).

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