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Bernard of Cluny
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Bernard of Cluny (kl`nē) or Bernard of Morlaix (môrlā`), fl. 1150, French Cluniac monk, of English parentage. He wrote De contemptu mundi [on contempt for the world], a poem in 3,000 hexameters. On it Horatio Parker based his oratorio Hora novissima, and from it John Mason Neale drew the words of Jerusalem the Golden.
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For Erasmus' reconciliation of Epicureanism with Christianity, see De contemptu mundi (written in the 1480s but first published in 1521), CWE, 66:165-67, and the colloquy, Epicureus(153 1), CWE 40:1073-88.
Reading Jerome in the Renaissance: Erasmus' reception of the Adversus ... by Pabel, Hilmar M. / Renaissance Quarterly
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