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  Cluny the Scourge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cluny is plagued in his dreams by the guardian spirit of Redwall, Martin the Warrior (fictional character).
Cluny is portrayed as a good general and a fine tactician and is one of the only vermin invaders ever to make it into the Great Hall of the Abbey, but he is still driven out by the Redwallers in the end.
Cluny was a savage and skilled fighter (he was said to have tamed a mighty beast known as a horse) and even Matthias the Warrior could not best him physically.
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 Cluny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cluny was founded by William of Aquitaine as his family monastery in 910 and was answerable directly to the Papal See.
Cluny suffered severely from the onslaughts of the two 18th-century movements hostile to anything medieval: the Enlightenment, with its classical mania for regularity and uniformity, and the Revolution.
Cluny was sold in 1798, a street was built through the nave of the church; in 1811 the bell towers of the sanctuary were dynamited, the ruins used as a rock quarry up to 1823, till finally it was accorded protection in 1826.
www.sspx.ca /Angelus/2002_December/Cluny.htm   (2354 words)

  
 Cluny
The surrounding town of Cluny prospered from the prominence of the abbey and received a communal charter in 1090 from the abbot St. Hugh.
Cluny's basilica was in great part demolished in the early 19th century, but the ruins of the main southern transept, dominated by a great belfry tower, testify to its former glory.
The economy of the modern town is based on the servicing of Cluny's agricultural hinterland: there is a national stud farm, a livestock market, and woodworking industries.
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 Cluniac Order
Cluny reached new heights of power and influence during Peter's abbacy, as its brethren became bishops, legates, and cardinals throughout France and the Holy Roman Empire [10].
This is to be done either at Cluny itself or while the abbot is touring member houses, though in the latter case the religious must visit Cluny and be professed again at some point in the future [39].
Cluny's influence upon the English Church, discussed previously, has altered the monastic culture of many Benedictine communities, encouraging the latter to extend and adorn their liturgical ceremonies at the expense of physical work.
www.aedificium.org /MonasticLife/CluniacOrder.html   (5577 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Cluny (Roman Catholic Orders And Missions) - Encyclopedia
Cluny was one of the chief religious and cultural centers of Europe.
As reconstructed by Kenneth J. Conant, Cluny III was a five-aisle basilica with double transepts and five radiating chapels around the apse.
When completed in the 12th cent., Cluny III was the largest church in the world.
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 Cluny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The town of Cluny or Clugny lies in the modern-day département of Saône-et-Loire in the région of Bourgogne, in east-central France, near Mâcon.
The monastery of Cluny differed in two ways from other Benedictine houses and confederations: in its organizational structure and in its execution of the liturgy as its main form of work.
Cluny's highly centralized hierarchy was a natural training ground for Catholic prelates: four monks of Cluny became popes: Gregory VII, Urban II, Paschal II, and Urban V. Cluny was also home to Saints Odo of Cluny and Hugh of Cluny.
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 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
We have seen in our discussion of Gerald of Aurillac how Odo of Cluny's conclusion that Gerald had in fact been a saint had led him to accept the proposition that the end of time was not imminent and that the world was susceptible of reform.
Cluny did so, but only on the condition that the reformed establishments would then belong to Cluny and be independent of local officials.
Cluny became, in many ways, the dynamo that powered the engine of reform directed toward rescuing the Church from feudalism and rescuing lay society as well.
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 Encyclopedia: The Cluniac Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Indeed, when Cluny itself, the original house of what would become "the Cluniac Movement", was founded in 909 A.D. by Duke William the Pious of Aquitaine, its charter explicitly stipulated that although it “shall have the protection of those same apostles [Peter and Paul] and the defence of the Roman pontiff”,
Truce of God, made Cluny immensely popular throughout the Western Church on all levels of society.
That is, just as all Cluniac monasteries were subject to the single jurisdiction of the Abbot of Cluny, so too would Gregory VII make the entire Western Church subject to the single jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome.
www.societaschristiana.com /Encyclopedia/C/CluniacMovement.html   (1198 words)

  
 France - Cluny
It was Cluny, quiet abbey of the southern hills, where a group of austere monks chanted the praises of God and guarded the civilization that the wars of the knights had imperiled.
It was to Cluny rather than to the capitals of France or the Holy Roman Empire that the princes of the Golden Duchy paid their homage.
Hugh, who brought the Catholic Church to a position of influence beyond the hopes of the notable churchmen of ten centuries, was one of the early abbots.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Congregation of Cluny
During the first 250 years of its existence Cluny was governed by a series of remarkable abbots, men who have left their mark upon the history of Western Europe and who were prominently concerned with all the great political questions of their day.
The abbey-church of Cluny was on a scale commensurate with the greatness of the congregation, and was regarded as one of the wonders of the Middle Ages.
Of those that were left at Cluny, some were burned by the revolutionary mob at the time of the suppression in 1790, and others stored away in the Cluny town hall.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04073a.htm   (1234 words)

  
 Cluny, abbey, Burgundy, Bourgogne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cluny, located NW of Mâcon, is known for its famous Benedictine abbey St-Pierre et St-Paul, which was founded in 910 by Duke William the Pious of Aquitaine.
Already under its first abbots the monastary of Cluny became the center of a powerful ecclesiastical reform movement which spread to about 2000 monastaries in Western Europe.
Its abbots were considered as powerful as monarchs or popes, and four of them - Odon, Mayeul, Odilon and Hugues - are venerated as saints.The present abbey was built in 1089 and was a magnificent structure as the models show below.
www.centralia.ctc.edu /~vfreund/FrenchResources/Frenchslides/BurgundyFrancheComte/Cluny/Cluny.html   (107 words)

  
 Cluny and Monastic Reform, The Benedictines by Dom Bruno Hicks OSB (1878-1954). Pt. 5
Cluny and Monastic Reform, The Benedictines by Dom Bruno Hicks OSB (1878-1954).
Possessed of enormous wealth, Cluny covered all Europe with its dependent Priories, whose rulers were directly subject to the abbot of the Mother House.
Cluny in fact became, next to Rome, the center of the Christian world; and after the Pope himself, the Abbot of Cluny was undoubtedly the greatest figure in the Church.
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 Liturgical Intercession at Cluny For the King-Emperors of Leon
Bernard of Cluny and the Alfonsine Diploma of 1077
These are: (i) his transfer to Cluny between 1073 and 1081 of various Leonese and Castilian monasteries; (ii) the concession in 1077 of a census double that of his father's, the additional thousand dinars to be used for feeding the monks; (iii) the contribution, from ca.
Nor did Cluny have reason herself to initiate extraordinary commemoration of a queen of no known special devotion to the abbey who was followed on the throne by Abbot Hugh's own niece.
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 Tourism Cluny Burgundy
A genuine tourist destination, Cluny is a "Town of Art and History", full of cultural treasures.
Built by the Cardinal de Bouillon of the Abbey of Cluny, in 1683.
There are 13 marked and maintained tracks to enable you to appreciate the local life style, arts and crafts and the cultural heritage of our region.
www.hotel-cluny.com /pages_en/clunisois.php   (426 words)

  
 New Catholic Dictionary: Cluny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Celebrated Benedictine monastery, founded in 909 by William, Duke of Aquitaine, in Cluny, Saone-et-Loire, France, which became the mother-house of a vast group of monasteries forming the Congregation of Cluny.
It played an important part in the Church reform of the 11th century, and reached the zenith of its glory in the 12th century, when it is said the congregation had 2,000 monasteries.
The abbey-church of Cluny was the largest monument in Christendom before the building of Saint Peter's of Rome, and a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd02128.htm   (173 words)

  
 Bio: The Early Abbots of Cluny (30 Apr 909)
The monastery of Cluny (in France, northwest of Lyons) was a center for the reform and spiritual renewal of Western monasticism in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
The abbot of Cluny appointed priors for the daughter houses, which were thus permanently under a central jurisdiction, making the Cluniac monasteries (or some of them) into the first monastic order in the modern sense.
The eighth Abbot of Cluny was Peter the Venerable, born in 1092, prior of Vezelay in 1112, and elected abbot of Cluny in 1122.
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 The Spanish Journey of Abbot Ponce of Cluny
Since Ponce was elected abbot of Cluny in 1109, and since he presumably reached Abbeville in the winter of 1111, it seems to follow that his Spanish [312] journey occurred in 1110 or 1111, and was directed towards visitation of Cluny's major trans-Pyrenean subject-houses.
Leon-Castile, and especially Leon, was a state with which, under Ferdinand I, Alfonso VI and Urraca, Cluny had strong personal and political ties; and on two previous occasions the abbot of Cluny had been called upon to settle dynastic disputes.
This is not the place to discuss the precise aims of papal policy as regards the settlement of the war in Leon and Castile, or the way in which the abbot- legate of 1113 carried out his diplomatic mission.
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 Cluny School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cluny School, as a Catholic School, exists to educate the whole person empowering its students to live lives of integrity based on Gospel values.
Cluny School has a significant military population and we are able to make accommodations for those needing placement in August, November and March.
Cluny offers challenging academic subjects and a wide variety of extra curricular activities and athletic programs.
www.ri.net /RInet/Cluny/menus/aboutcluny/about1.html   (163 words)

  
 Cluny --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is called Cluny because it was inspired by examples of 16th- and 17th-century scalloped lace with geometric patterns displayed in the Cluny Museum, Paris.
French abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Cluny (1049–1109), under whose direction medieval monasticism reached its apogee and Cluny won recognition as the spiritual centre of Western Christianity.
Extract from the 12th-century debate between the Cistercians of Clairvaux and the Benedictines from the monastery at Cluny.
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 Cluny
Cluny besaß das bedeutendste Geldvermögen in Europa und herrschte über 2.000 Besitztümer, die sich von der Lombardei bis nach Schottland erstreckten.
Clunys Macht bewies sich nicht zuletzt in der unvergleichlichen intellektuellen Neugier, die diese Elitegemeinschaft beseelte.
sich in Eurem Cluny eine dauerhafte Bleibe erwählt...
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Foundation Charter of Cluny, 910
The founding of the abbey of Cluny in 910 marked the onset of this period.
As well as providing some basis for Cluny's later power and independence, the charter is an example of why donations were made to the Church.
To all right thinkers it is clear that the providence of God has so provided for certain rich men that, by means of their transitory possessions, if they use them well, they may be able to merit everlasting rewards.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/chart-cluny.html   (669 words)

  
 Cluny and other monastic movements of the Central Middle Ages
Cluny and other reforms of the Central Middle Ages
The Cluny Project has extensive resources, including texts about Cluny and people associated with the monastery, images, and reconstructions of its possible appearance.
The Gilbertines, founded as communities of nuns on the model of the Cistercian order, who refused to accept them, with attached communities of canons regular (The Rule of Augustine), and lay brothers and sisters.
www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~dvess/ids/medieval/medref.html   (548 words)

  
 Cluny Bobbin Lace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cluny lace was developed during the second half of the 19th century, inspired by lace samples originally worked during the 16th century.
It was usually worked in coarse linen threads and used to trim household items, such as table and bed linens.
The 'secret', for me, is to tie a half knot using the outer 2 bobbins to hold the leaf securely after you make it.
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 Split Cluny II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
You can also throw split clunies off of the unturned side of a split ring - in shuttle tatting if you don't mind introducing a 3rd shuttle and leaving a ring hanging open while you weave the leaf using the shuttle that ties the knots and that 3rd shuttle.
Also, you could do the same in the cluny shuttle (if you prefer split cluny to split chain, that is!).
Use the almost-empty shuttle as the weaving thread for the split cluny, and use the new shuttle as the loom thread.
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 Abbey Of Cluny - Cluny Hotels - France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Benedictine abbey of Cluny was the cradle of a reform which drastically changed the western monastic tradition.
It was at this time, around 1088, that construction began on the third abbey church (Cluny III).
Cluny became a national property during the French Revolution.
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 Jacques Maritain Center: CE - Abelard
Bernard now wrote to the members of the Roman Curia, with the result that Abelard had proceeded only as far as Cluny on his way to Rome when the decree of Innocent II confirming the sentence of the Council of Sens reached him.
The Venerable Peter of Cluny now took up his case, obtained from Rome a mitigation of the sentence reconciled him with St. Bernard, and gave him honourable and friendly hospitality at Cluny.
He donned the habit of the monks of Cluny and became a teacher in the school of the monastery.
www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/abelard.htm   (2218 words)

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