Poème De R G Cadou Hélène

manières by Étienne de Fougères (d. 1178) and verse sermons such as Li Vers des Juïse (Judgement) warned that salvation lay in rejecting worldly temptation, while the themes of the brevity of life, the vanity of human affairs and the need to repent (Le Poëme moral, c.1200) were repeated endlessly, with lurid pictures of heaven and hell serving as carrot and stick. In time, authors added further graphic scenarios to Biblical, hagiographic and other Christian traditions, dramatizing the story of Eden, the