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	Abbey of Cluny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cluniac houses, being directly under the supervision of the abbot of Cluny, the autocrat of the Order, were styled priories, not abbeys.
		In Germany, the penetration of Cluniac ideals was effected in concert with Henry III of the Salian dynasty, who had married a daughter of the duke of Aquitaine.
		In 1056, the first Cluniac nunnery was founded at Marcigny and after this other convents followed inclusing those in the British Isles; the Cluniac nuns were always been greatly outnumbered by their male counterparts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cluniac (1902 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Cluniac Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A key component of the Cluniac world-view was, accordingly, the possession of temporal and spiritual liberty.
		the Cluniac monastery itself was dubbed “the refuge of penance” (asylum poenitentium) and contrasted to “the vast and treacherous ocean” of spiritual shipwreck outside.
		Cowdrey, The Cluniacs and the Gregorian Reform, pg.
	www.societaschristiana.com /Encyclopedia/C/CluniacMovement.html (1198 words)

	Cluniac Order
		Cluniac communities in England are not as numerous as their Benedictine counterparts, nor do they tend to be quite as populous.
		The Cluniac foundation process is thus heavily dependent upon the willingness and ability of the mother house to establish and nurture a daughter community.
		The Cluniac hierarchy is feudal in nature, with each daughter house dependent upon its parent as is a lay vassal upon an overlord [25].
	www.aedificium.org /MonasticLife/CluniacOrder.html (5577 words)

	CLUNES - LoveToKnow Article on CLUNES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Order of Cluniac Benedictines.The Monastery of Cluny was founded in 910 by William I. the Pious, count of Auvergne and duke of Guienne (Aquitaine).
		Hildebrand himself, though probably not a monk of Cluny, was a monk of a Cluniac monastery in Rome; his successor, Urban II., was actually a Ciuny monk, as was Paschal II.
		It may safely be said that from the middle of the 10th century until the middle of the I 2th, Cluny was the chief centre of religious influence throughout Western Europe, and the abbot of Cluny, next to the pope, the most important and powerful ecclesiastic in the Latin Church.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CL/CLUNES.htm (1510 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2002026808
		Situated in southern Burgundy, in the valley of the Grosne, west of the mountains of Mâconnais, it was the largest church in all of Christendom, with a nave 187 meters (614 feet) long and a cupola estimated to have crossed its great transept at a height of 40 meters (131 feet).
		Cluniac feasts grew so numerous and complicated that they were broken into six hierarchical classes, each celebrated with commensurate splendor.
		When, in 1125, Peter was called away to Cluniac houses in the Aquitaine, Pons, with the help of rebels lurking within the abbey walls, and outside in the town, mounted a ferocious campaign to retake the monastery, collapsing one of the high vaults of the still unfinished nave of Cluny III.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/simon051/2002026808.html (3816 words)

	Houses of Cluniac monks: Priory of Prittlewell \| British History Online
		Houses of Cluniac monks: Priory of Prittlewell
		In 1359 the prior and convent had licence to acquire land and rent in Prittlewell for the celebration of a memorial for the soul of William de Dersham, servant of William de Bohun, earl of Northampton.
		Prittlewell, being a Cluniac house, was considered alien, and so was frequently taken into the king's hands in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=39839 (1986 words)

	Cluniac order. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Many Cluniac monks became bishops and through provincial synods were thus able to spread reform in church life throughout Europe.
		Cluny stoutly supported the popes (and was itself under papal protection) and served vitally in the great reform program of Pope Gregory VII.
		Cluniac zeal diminished in the 12th cent., and the monastic reforming initiative was taken up by the Cistercians.
	www.bartleby.com /65/cl/Cluniaco.html (255 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume V: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1049-1294. (ii.x.iii)
		The Cluniacs re-enforced the rule of St. Benedict in the direction of greater austerity.
		Hirschau in the Black Forest became a centre of Cluniac influence in Southern Germany and one of the chief centres of intelligence of the age.
		Cluniacs and Cistercians should admonish one another if they discerned errors one in the other, for they were pursuing after one inheritance and following one command.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc5.ii.x.iii.html (1826 words)

	White Monks Chapter 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Consequently, as a further antithesis of the Cluniac system, the only permissible source of income for Cistercians was hard manual labor in their fields with the help of lay brothers, an institution already started at Vallombrosa.
		But, in sharp contrast to the Cluniac system, he personally is not entitled to exercise the governmental powers that are committed to the annually convoked General Chapter.
		The chief weapon of the Cistercian debater against the Cluniac was not the Rule, but almost invariably Cassian with his stories and maxims of the Desert Fathers.
	www.monksonline.org /White-Monks/ch3.htm (2964 words)

	Historical Vocabulary Part 3
		Cluniac reforms - 910 - The Cluniac Reform Movement began in Burgundy at the abbey of Cluny.
		The Cluniac abbots maintained strict adherence to the ideal of moderation practiced by the Benedictines.
		The Cluniac reforms included an increased dedication to public worship, and labor though copying of transcripts.
	www.2ad.com /~john/history/unit3_defs (5423 words)

	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| Miscellaneous articles:Lenton Priory (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ideal upon which the Cluniac Order was established was the existence of a great central monastery with subordinate establishments spread over many lands and closely dependent on the mother house.
		The abbot was the supreme head of 200 monasteries, with the same authority over all Cluniac monks as over those of the mother house.
		Thus, English Cluniacs were bound to cross the seas and take the long journey south through France to Cluny, unless the abbot came to England.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /articles/lentonpriory1936/lenton1.htm (785 words)

	Sep 03 - Article - Bernard of Clairvaux - An 850th anniversary tribute - Alan C. Clifford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cluniac establishments sprang up all over Europe, and great abbey churches — Cluny’s was built from 1089-1131 — dominated the skyline.
		Cluniac ostentation in architecture and art was to be shunned, and indulgence with regard to food and ease was forbidden.
		He is famous for rebuking the self-indulgence of the Cluniacs during the incumbency of Peter the Venerable.
	www.evangelical-times.org /articles/sep03/sep03a11.htm (2156 words)

	Cluny and Monastic Reform, The Benedictines by Dom Bruno Hicks OSB (1878-1954). Pt. 5
		Being thus the immediate Superior of all the Cluniac monks throughout the world, the Abbot of Cluny was a person of vast power and importance, whose opinion was sought for on every question by rulers and subjects, alike in Church and State.
		Centralization under the Pope, the dependence of the various Churches on the See of Rome, the acceptance of her decrees and canons in matters of discipline, as well as of faith, were the only remedies for abuses which threatened the very existence of religion.
		The great reformers, Leo IX and Hildebrand, the latter himself a monk, were ardent disciples of the Cluniac system, and the enormous extent of good which they effected in the cause of religion and morality has hardly yet been realized in its entirety by writers or students of the times.
	www.osb.org /gen/hicks/ben-05.html (543 words)

	The Latin Mass – A Journal of Catholic Culture
		Cluny would be blessed with a number of saintly abbots, who were determined to direct religious life according to the traditional Benedictine model – and then to spread their work and influence beyond the walls of their abbey.
		Thus all the Cluniac monasteries operated under the authority of the abbot of Cluny.
		By allowing the Cluniac houses to bypass the authority of the bishops – who, in their day as in ours, were so often opponents of true reform – the Church gave this divinely inspired movement the room it needed to carry out its mission.
	www.latinmassmagazine.com /articles/articles_2001_FA_Woods.html (1579 words)

	MSN Encarta - Cluniac Order
		Cluniac Order, Christian religious order established in ad 910 by William of Aquitaine at the monastic foundation at Cluny, France, as a revival...
		importance of the Cluniac reform movement in France
		importance of the Cluniac reform movement in Germany
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_762505210/Cluniac_Order.html (93 words)

	Lenton, Nottingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name 'Lenton' is derived from the river Leen, which runs through the area.
		Lenton originally grew up around a Cluniac priory, which was founded in 1105.
		As the fortunes of the priory grew (becoming one of the wealthiest monasteries in the country), so did the village of Lenton; by the time of the dissolution of the monasteries Lenton village was well enough established to continue without its priory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lenton,_Nottingham (390 words)

	Critique and Ideal, the Cistercian Renewal
		Cistercian architecture eschewed decoration - Bernard was a severe critic of Cluniac ornament - for chose a severe style, typically with a square apse.
		The latter replaced the Cluniac rounded apse with its ambulatory and apsidal chapels.
		Controversy between Cistercians and Cluniacs (the "white" and the "fl" monks) was exacerbated by "conversions" from one order to the other.
	www.etss.edu /hts/hts2/info23.htm (5248 words)

	présentation de la Fédération
		The aims of the association are to present and develop the Cluniac heritage and its history and to federate the owners of these sites : local communities, associations and private individuals.
		At the present time, historians estimate that, at the height of its influence, that is to say in the mid-12 th century, the network of Cluny's dependencies numbered approximately a thousand abbeys and priories.
		Finally, it should be noted that many of them gave rise to monastic boroughs, in direct accordance with the spiritual and social action of the Cluniacs and, as a result, now belong to local municipalities.
	fsc.cluny.free.fr /english/presentfsc.html (368 words)

	White Monks Chapter 14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The divergence between Cistercian reform and Cluniac customs nowhere became so conspicuous as in the matter of the liturgy and Citeaux's sharp criticism was nowhere more justified than in that field of contemporary monastic life.
		The contribution of Citeaux to the liturgical development of the twelfth century was largely a negative one, namely the consistent application of the principles of poverty and simplicity in sharp opposition to the Cluniac exuberance.
		With the exception of a wooden crucifix, any superfluous decoration of the sanctuary or of the altar was strictly prohibited, the use of precious metals in making the sacred vessels and other necessary equipment was eliminated, the vestments were made only of linen or wool without any variety in color or quality.
	www.monksonline.org /White-Monks/ch14.htm (3921 words)

	Article in The Medieval Review
		What unites society--an intensely sacramental view of the church as united and sustained by the monk-priest's presiding over the eucharistic sacrifice--is that which divides, for Petrobrusians, Jews, and Muslims are excluded from this unity by their refusal to recognize the validity of the Mass.
		First of all it serves to ground the analysis of Peter's treatises in the concrete experience of a very particular abbot of a very particular monastic order (a type of grounding much needed in the analysis of such works).
		Secondly, since the Cluniac order was, in its vast geographical extent and remarkable diversity, something of a microcosm of the Church anyway, the micro-historical analysis assayed here turns out to shed a great deal of light on the macro-historical experience of the Latin Church.
	www.uni-muenster.de /Fruehmittelalter/Projekte/Cluny/BiblClun/bmr-001.htm (1319 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Congregation of Cluny
		It became a home of learning and a training school for popes, four of whom, Gregory VII (Hildebrand), Urban II, Paschal II, and Urban V, were called from its cloisters to rule the Universal Church.
		In England the Cluniac houses numbered thirty-five at the time of the dissolution.
		The earliest foundation was that of the priory of St. Pancras at Lewes (1077), the prior of which usually held the position of vicar-general of the Abbot of Cluny for England and Scotland.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04073a.htm (1234 words)

	Berkshire History: Reading Abbey, a History
		The Cluniacs were the first of several orders founded with the object of keeping more strictly the Rule of St. Benedict.
		The first Cluniac priory founded in England was at Barnstaple.
		All the English Cluniac monasteries were priories except Reading and Bermondsey.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /churches/reading_abbey.html (792 words)

	House of Cluniac monks: The cell of Kersal \| British History Online
		House of Cluniac monks: The cell of Kersal
		Citation: 'House of Cluniac monks: The cell of Kersal', A History of the County of Lancashire: Volume 2 (1908), pp.
		From a Cluniac visitation of that date it appears that there were then a prior and one monk in the cell.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=38347 (879 words)

	Bio: The Early Abbots of Cluny (30 Apr 909)
		He insisted on silence, simplicity of diet, and strict observance of chastity for his monks, but he was not rigid of temperament: many stories survive of his generosity to the poor and to prisoners.
		It was under his abbacy that the Cluniac reform was introduced into England (at Lewes in Sussex in 1077).
		Peter was then involved in a dispute with Bernard of Clairvaux (see 20 August), the spokesman of the Cistercian monasteries, and disposed to view the Cluniac monasteries as in some sense a rival organization, who accused the Cluniac houses of being insufficiently strict in their monastic observances.
	elvis.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/04/30.html (1124 words)

	The Cluniac Priories of Galicia and Portugal: Their Acquisition and
		This is the only dependency the Cluniacs came to possess in trans-Douro Portugal, and it was evidently of modest size: we hear of the ecclesia sancte Iuste and its conversion into a hospice before the transfer, but not of appurtenances.
		And Queen Teresa, in the most detailed of such provisions, stipulates when ceding Vimieiro that she is to be associated henceforth with the merits and prayers of all Cluniac obedientiae as well as of the abbey herself, and after death to receive a tricenarium of Masses and perpetual commemoration of her obit.
		These are (i) the intervention at Nájera of the Cluniac uisitatores Eustorgius and Aymeric; (ii) the abbot's own journey to the Peninsula; and (iii) the activities at Nájera and Villafranca of the monk John, Gerard's appointee as camerarius Hispanie.
	libro.uca.edu /monastic/monastic11.htm (14482 words)

	Romanesque Art_Plates
		Cluniac church of Paray-le-Monial (also in Burgundy, near Cluny), ca.
		Cluniac church of Paray-le-Monial, interior of the nave and crossing
		Cluniac church of Paray-le-Monial, interior toward the choir and apse
	www.nyu.edu /classes/finearts/smith/romanesque/plates2.html (5063 words)

	CLUNIAC
		"CLUNIAC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 84.62% of the time.
		"CLUNIAC" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
		Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/CL/CLUNIAC.html (384 words)

	Ben Cater - pg 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		More importantly, though, they show us that Cluniacs were not adamantly concerned with austerity but took Benedict’s advice that the monastic life should be tempered by moderation.
		Those of the Cluniac order—grand, ornate buildings, more food and drink, and a longer time for sleeping—did not because they deprived the faithful of time intended for spiritual exercises.
		Child oblation was a common practice and in keeping with the Rule of St. Benedict, and the Cluniacs used this to argue to Pope Calixtus II that Robert rightfully belonged to them.
	www.ptloma.edu /HistPolSci/students/Ben_Cater2.htm (1870 words)

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