Wilchard of Lyon
Wilchard von Lyon , also Wikard von Lyon and Guichard von Lyon (* before 1087 in Besançon , † 1112 in Lyon ) was a Latin poet.
Life
After working for the Simonist hunter and papal legate Hugo of Burgundy around 1078, Wilchard became a canon in Lyon (around 1080 to 1112).
In the spirit of Hugo and the reform pope Gregory VII , Wilchard addressed grievances in a striking way around 1080, such as the simony , in the religious orders, which he castigated in a Latin verse satire consisting of several times purely rhyming , spondex-free and therefore particularly reception-friendly hexameters . It is considered to be one of the important and particularly well received poems of the investiture dispute . A text example for the aural rhyme technique and the 'hyper-correct' hexameters without spondes (verses 13-14): “Ordo monasticus ecclesiasticus est sine sensu / (a) estimat omnia spiritualia divite censu ”.
reception
Wilchard's untitled poem in the style of the time was widely distributed by hand, sometimes anonymously or under different author names. It has sometimes been expanded, including a Proömium , after the first line of which it is sometimes quoted as Sacrilegis monachis emptoribus ecclesiarum . In addition, for Bernhard von Morval it became the explicitly named model of his large satire (almost 3000 verses), De Contemptu mundi, which was widespread and widely read for centuries .
Work editions
Wilchard's verse satire appeared as an anonymous poem in 1557 in a collection Varia doctorum piorumque virorum De corrupto ecclesiae statu poemata in Basel , edited by Matthias Flacius Illyricus (= Matthias Frankowitz), on pages 489 to 491. Under the name of a Nicholaus , the work was published in 1897 by Heinrich Boehmer published in the Monumenta Germaniae historica . Udo Kindermann published it under the reassigned author name Wilchard in a presentation entitled: The satirist Wilchard von Lyon .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libelli de lite, Volume 3 , Hanover 1897, pp. 700-701.
- ↑ In: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch , Vol. 23 (for 1988: 1991), pp. 37-45
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilchard of Lyon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wikard of Lyon; Guichard of Lyon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latin poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1087 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Besançon |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1112 |
| Place of death | Lyon |