!!!Memento-mori-Dichtung

Memento-mori Poetry, collective name for those texts of  Religious 
Literature of the late 11th and 12th centuries which were 
influenced by the Cluniac Reform and which, in line with the counsel 
("remember you must die") from which their name is derived, exhort 
both clerics and laymen to do penance and mend their ways. Typical 
examples, often written in drastic language, from the area of 
contemporary Austria are works by  Heinrich von Melk, "Die Warnung" 
("The Warning"), and others.

!Literature
D. Kartschoke, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im 
fruehen Mittelalter, 1990.


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