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Dictionary and Thesaurus We have already noted that one of the factors leading to the disintegration of the Carolingian empire was that its failure to expand turned the energies of its land-hungry class of fighting land-holders inward. The contending parties in the civil wars of the time needed assistance and had to purchase it. Dukes and counts, margraves and local officials first demanded that their land-holdings and offices be made hereditary, and, when this point had been won, often sought grants of land from the royal fisc . Soon the claimants to power in Neustria (France) had given away so much land that they had less wealth and power than some of their landholders. With hereditary lands and offices, these fighting landholders began to coalesce into a class that it often called the feudal aristocracy . http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/cluny.html

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Abbaye de Cluny

Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir Cluny . L' abbaye de Cluny , en Saône-et-Loire , fut fondée le 2 septembre 909 [ 1 ] ou 910 par le duc d'Aquitaine et comte d'Auvergne Guillaume I er . Cluny est le symbole du renouveau monastique en Occident ; l' abbaye fut un foyer de réformation de la règle bénédictine et un centre intellectuel de premier plan au Moyen Âge classique. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbaye_de_Cluny

Study 2, Fernando I and the origins of the Leonese-Castilian Alliance with Cluny

Studies in Medieval Spanish Frontier History Charles Julian Bishko Study II Fernando I and the Origins of the Leonese-Castilian Alliance With Cluny (This article appeared originally in Cuadernos de Historia de España 47 (1968), 31-135 and 48 (1969), 30-116 and appears in LIBRO with the kind permission of Dna. http://libro.uca.edu/frontier/bishko2.htm
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Universität Münster > Institut für Frühmittelalterforschung - Projekt Cluny

From Rotulus to data bank The evangeliarium of Helmarshausen (circa 1120-1140), slightly modernized Nearly 70,000 names of persons mentioned in the edition (ed. by Bernard and Bruel) of the 5,500 charters of the monastery of Cluny (10th - 13th century) are now available in a data base with further informations concerning their offices, their activities, and their parental relationship. An index of all place names (approximately 17,000) and their identification, as well as a subject index are being prepared. This work is carried out as an interdisciplinary project with the "Centre Georges Chevrier" of the Law Faculty of the University of Burgundy (Dijon). The identification of the names of Spanish individuals and places in Cluniac documents is being done with in collaboration with the University of Valladolid . The publication of a multivolume index of the names of individuals and places, as well as of specific terms from the edition, is planned.

St. Odo of Cluny - St. Odon of Cluny - November 18 - Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary on the Saint of the Day @ TraditionInAction.org

http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j204sd_OdoCluny_11-18.html Biographical selection: Odo (879-942) was son of noble parents who lived in the Alsace, France. They attributed his birth to the miraculous intercession of St. Martin of Tours. As a child he was sent to the court of Fulk the Good, Count of Anjou; later he went to the court of William, Duke of Aquitaine. At age 16 he became a canon of the Church of St.
http://www.aedificium.org/MonasticLife/CluniacOrder.html The order of Cluny is a Benedictine offshoot founded at a time when reformist ideas were gaining momentum within the Church. Widely regarded as the ultimate expression of the monastic ideal in the tenth and eleventh centuries, it became immensely popular, only to be superceded in the twelfth by newer orders such as the Cistercians . Though Cluny's spiritual authority has been undermined to some extent, the order still wields tremendous influence. Member houses, numbering in the hundreds, are spread over much of Europe.

Cluniac Order

http://www.rfi.fr/france/20100811-fetes-cluny-le-toilettage-abbaye Quand on marche dans Cluny, un jour comme un autre, sans festivités, sans foule dans la rue, on est frappé par l’ambiance de paix qui se dégage du bourg. Le décor, les bâtiments datant de l’époque médiévale, donnent l’impression de baigner dans cette spiritualité qui a fait la notoriété de Cluny. Car si cette ville bourguignonne peut sembler endormie, elle a été, au Moyen Age, un lieu d’effervescence chrétienne. Des centaines d’années plus tard, on peut ressentir une atmosphère à part, qu’on l’appelle recueillement, méditation, ou prière. De ce passé religieux et moyenâgeux, il ne reste que des bâtiments construits plus tardivement, notamment l’abbatiale Cluny III.

Fêtes à Cluny pour le toilettage de l’abbaye

http://www.fileane.com/laurie/laurie01/cluny.htm cette page est une illustration du texte du roman " D'Eleusis à Dendérah, l'évolution interdite " diffusé sur ce site. Lors de la conférence de Nancy (l'épisode 12), Pierre, le poète, raconte comment les moines bénédictins ont remis en place une organisation en réseau de l'Europe pour réduire sinon éliminer les systèmes de pouvoir fondés sur la royauté et la féodalité qui permettaient à des propriétaires individuels d'obtenir tous pouvoirs sur les biens et sur les gens. Les ordres monastiques et les ordres chevaliers comme celui du Temple créé à Clairvaux par Bernard vont restaurer la propriété communautaire dans laquelle une minorité ne peut pas accaparer à elle la plupart des richesses. Cluny reste le berceau de ce mouvement qui construisit le temps des cathédrales en Europe.

CLUNY

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http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/nelson/cluny.html Lectures for A Medieval Survey The Feudalization of the Church: 850-1000 We have already noted that one of the factors leading to the disintegration of the Carolingian empire was that its failure to expand turned the energies of its land-hungry class of fighting land-holders inward. The contending parties in the civil wars of the time needed assistance and had to it. Dukes and counts, margraves and local officials first demanded that their land-holdings and offices be made hereditary, and, when this point had been won, often sought grants of land from the royal . Soon the claimants to power in Neustria (France) had given away so much land that they had less wealth and power than some of their landholders.

LE JURA CÉLÈBRE CLUNY - Policultures

http://www.policultures.fr/territoires/article/le-jura-celebre-cluny C’est de Gigny et de Baume-les-Messieurs, dans le Jura, que sont partis les fondateurs de Cluny. Le département rappelle cette histoire en participant aux manifestations du mille centième anniversaire de la fondation de l’abbaye bourguignonne Les manifestations du 1100è anniversaire de la fondation de l’abbaye de Cluny ont commencé le 13 septembre, et s’achèveront dans un an.
For centuries Cluny's tower-studded, walled marvel of ecclesiastical architecture, an orgy of archways, vaults and carved capitals, was the largest and richest monastic complex in Christendom. You wouldn't guess it by the looks of the place today. Just one part of one of the abbey's soaring transepts still stands, its freshly repaved floors replacing the dusty beaten earth that was so effective at summoning ghosts.

Letter from France: A time tunnel named Cluny

Discover Cluny: Photos and hotspots on Google Maps, no need to book a flight or hotel

Cluny Made by NightSkyRules Veduta su quanto rimane della terza chiesa abbaziale di Cluny. Edificata nel 1088 e dedicata a San Pietro e Paolo, fu - sino alla costruzione della basilica di San Pietro nel 1626 - l'edificio religioso più grande d'Europa. Terza chiesa ad essere eretta nel comune della Borgogna, l'abbazia era lunga ben 189 metri contava cinque navate, un nartece, un coro allungato con deambulatorio e cappelle radiali, un doppio transetto e cinque torri. Per secoli fu il punto di riferimento occidentale per il monachesimo benedettino. A partire dal XIII secolo iniziò il lungo declino dell'ordine monastico di Cluny che si conclue qualche anno dopo la rivoluzione francese con la cacciata degli ultimi monaci e la progressiva distruzione dell'abazia, le cui pietre furono usate quali materiale da costruzione sino al 1813. Gli archivi furono bruciati già nel 1793.

Cluny – Famous Benedictine Abbey

The history of monasticism is one of alternate periods of decay and revival. With growth in popular esteem came increase in material wealth, leading to luxury and worldliness. The first religious ardour cooled, the strictness of the rule was relaxed, until by the 10th century the decay of discipline was so complete in France that the monks are said to have been frequently unacquainted with the rule of St Benedict, and even ignorant that they were bound by any rule at all. The reformation of abuses generally took the form of the establishment of new monastic orders, with new and more stringent rules, requiring a modification of the architectural arrangements. One of the earliest of these reformed orders was the Cluniac.
Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir Cluny . Au début du X e siècle, naît en l'Église catholique la volonté de réformer l'ordre monastique. Cette restauration s'appuie sur la Règle de saint Benoît , un règlement qui régit dans ses moindres détails la vie monastique, pour respecter l'observance. Cette Règle initiée par saint Benoît de Nursie au VI e siècle connaît un important développement, notamment grâce à l'action de Benoît d'Aniane trois siècles plus tard. Mais elle est limitée par les traditions qui se développent dans les abbayes , et par la méconnaissance de la Règle.

Ordre de Cluny

Odo is the glory of the great abbey of Cluny, which was responsible for a huge program of monastic and clerical reform under this great abbot. He was the second abbot of Cluny but began his religious life as canon of St. Martin of Tours, to whom he always had a deep devotion.

St. Odo of Cluny