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R126
Carmen TrudonenseCentury: 12
Poems
Latin
Dioc. Liège
Principality of Liège
Principality of Liège
INCIPIT
O mortalis homo, tibi uitae camina promo./ Pande sinum mentis in lumine cunctipotentis/ Cuius habes donis quod inest tibi ius rationis...
EXPLICIT
Sex: M- Bio: Rodulfus was born c.1070 in Moustier-sur-Sambre (Namur). He studied in the cathedral school of Liège and was professed in the abbey of Burtscheid (near Aachen). He stayed for some time in the abbeys of Hersfeld and Gladbach and finally arrived in the abbey of Sint-Truiden (OSB), where he was chosen as the abbot on 30 january 1108. On 13th April 1121 he was forced to leave the abbey. He stayed consecutively in Affligem, Ghent (Saint-Peter), Liège (Saint-Laurent) and Deutz (near Cologne). On 6th September 1121 he was chosen as the abbot of Saint-Pantaleon in Cologne. In 1123 he returned to Sint-Truiden where he died on 6th March 1138. (cfr. Aerts). (cfr. BRASSINE en TOMBEUR).-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)
EDITING
Location: / - Date:manuscript of the 12th century - Commission: /
SIZE
796 woorden
CONTEXT
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ABSTRACT
Poem in which the practice of virtues being touted. The author discusses the Christian morality issues. He appoints all forms of human depravity: pride, jealousy, ambition, lust, avarice and especially heresy. According to the poet the most pronounced form of heresy is simony.
SOURCES
De Maria et Synagoga
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
BOUTEMY (A.), Carmina Trudonensia, in: Mélanges Joseph de Ghellinck, 2 (Gembloers, 1951) 598-601
LITERATURE
AERTS (J.H.), 'Rodulfus', in: Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, 3 (Brussel, 1968) 713 (707-715)
BOUTEMY (A.), 'Carmina Trudonensia', in: Mélanges Joseph de Ghellinck, 2, Museum Lessianum. Section historique, 14 (Gembloers, 1951) 585-598
Index scriptorum III/2, 296-297
Monasticon belge, VI (Bruges and Liège: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1890-1993) 40-43
VANDERPUTTEN (S.), ‘Rudolf of St. Trond’, in: G. Dunphy, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Leiden/Boston, 2010) 1307
WALTHER (H.), Initia carminum ac versuum medii aevi posterioris latinorum - Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Versanfänge mittellateinischer Dichtungen, Carmina medii aevi posterioris latina, 1 (Göttingen, 1959) 12.802a
BOUTEMY (A.), 'Carmina Trudonensia', in: Mélanges Joseph de Ghellinck, 2, Museum Lessianum. Section historique, 14 (Gembloers, 1951) 585-598
Index scriptorum III/2, 296-297
Monasticon belge, VI (Bruges and Liège: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1890-1993) 40-43
VANDERPUTTEN (S.), ‘Rudolf of St. Trond’, in: G. Dunphy, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Leiden/Boston, 2010) 1307
WALTHER (H.), Initia carminum ac versuum medii aevi posterioris latinorum - Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Versanfänge mittellateinischer Dichtungen, Carmina medii aevi posterioris latina, 1 (Göttingen, 1959) 12.802a
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Contributor:
Marit Gypen
Véronique Lambert
Update:
2013-05-22 14:18:16
Contributor:
Marit Gypen
Véronique Lambert
Update:
2013-05-22 14:18:16
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