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- material life. The theme of contemptus mundi continued to inform European poetry into the Early Modern period. Contemptus mundi is a running theme in...
- Spirostreptus contemptus, is a species of round-backed millipede in the family Spirostreptidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. "Annotated checklist of millipedes...
- Harpalus contemptus is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Harpalinae. It was described by Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean in 1829. "Harpalus...
- by acquiring the knowledge of Brahman, according to Advaita Vedanta. Contemptus mundi is the name given to the belief that the world, in all its vanity...
- De contemptu mundi (On Contempt for the World) is the most well-known work of Bernard of Cluny. It is a 3,000 verse poem of stinging satire directed against...
- and in the same year published his first essay, Aristarchus, sive De contemptu linguae Teutonicae, which presented the German language as suitable for...
- last words of Jesus on the cross in the Latin translation of John 19:30. contemptus mundi/saeculi scorn for the world/times Despising the secular world. The...
- importance of hardiness as a masculine virtue tied to religious sentiments of contemptus mundi. Largesse or Liberality: generosity was part of a noble quantity...
- originated in 1393 [citation needed] in Old French from the Latin word contemptus meaning "scorn". It is the past participle of contemnere and from con-...
- ascetic life. In the unfinished treatise he left behind, later called "De contemptu Mundi" or "On Contempt for the World", he calls upon readers to fly from...