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A companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9004470131 9004499237 9789004470132 9789004499232 Year: 2022 Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers

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"Founded in 910 by Duke William of Aquitaine, the abbey of Cluny rose to prominence in the eleventh century as the most influential and opulent center for monastic devotion in medieval Europe. While the twelfth century brought challenges, both internal and external, the Cluniacs showed remarkable adaptability in the changing religious climate of the high Middle Ages. Written by international experts representing a range of academic disciplines, the contributions to this volume examine the rich textual and material sources for Cluny's history, offering not only a thorough introduction to the distinctive character of Cluniac monasticism in the Middle Ages, but also the lineaments of a detailed research agenda for the next generation of historians. Contributors are: Isabelle Rosé, Steven Vanderputten, Marc Saurette, Denyse Riche, Susan Boynton, Anne Baud, Sébastien Barret, Robert Berkhofer III, Isabelle Cochelin, Michael Hänchen, Gert Melville, Eliana Magnani, Constance Bouchard, Benjamin Pohl, and Scott G. Bruce"--


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From martyr to monument : the Abbey of Cluny as cultural patrimony
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ISBN: 1282193023 9786612193026 1443809470 9781282193024 9781443809474 1847182127 9781847182128 6612193026 Year: 2007 Publisher: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,

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After the French Revolution and the dissolution of the monastic orders, the great Abbey of Cluny in France was closed and the buildings were sold for materials. This process went on for nearly thirty years, just as a romantic appreciation of the medieval past was gaining popularity. Although the government was unable to halt most of the demolition work, one transept arm with a large and small tower was saved from ruin, along with a few small Gothic buildings and the eighteenth-century cloiste...


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Cluny après Cluny : Constructions, reconstructions et commémorations, 1790-2010
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ISBN: 9782753522602 275352260X 2753569444 Year: 2019 Publisher: Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes,

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En 2009 et 2010, spectacles, fêtes de rue, expositions, colloques, randonnées à saveur patrimoniale, messes, repas moyenâgeux, foires, concours de poésie… se succédèrent durant seize mois pour célébrer le 11e centenaire de la fondation de l’abbaye de Cluny. Les historiens furent de la partie, acteurs parmi d’autres d’un « événement exceptionnel » et de festivités placées sous le signe de la concorde et de l’esprit européen. Ce livre est le fruit d’une réflexion collective entamée au cours des célébrations, non pas pour commémorer Cluny ou pour faire l’histoire de l’objet que l’on commémorait, mais pour analyser les processus par lequel Cluny, mort en 1790, a été reconstruit, pensé et patrimonialisé. Cluny est donc ici un prétexte. L’histoire de ses reconstructions permet de mesurer les distances entre le sens du Cluny médiéval et celui que l’on prête à ses monuments et à ses moines défunts. Son 11e centenaire est une occasion pour analyser le sens actuel de l’activité commémorative et les relations entre historiens, citoyens, administrateurs et conservateurs de l’héritage culturel.


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Paix et communautés autour de l'abbaye de Cluny : Xe-XVe siècle
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ISSN: 12552380 ISBN: 9782729708306 2729708308 2729711112 Year: 2018 Volume: 9 Publisher: Lyon : Presses universitaires de Lyon,

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Cluny, l'abbaye bénédictine la plus puissante du Moyen Âge est au cœur d'un paradoxe. Retirés du monde pour se consacrer à la prière, les moines ne cessent d'agir sur le monde. Accumulant les donations des aristocrates soucieux de leur salut, ils deviennent de puissants seigneurs. Versés dans la méditation et la copie des textes anciens, ils pensent le monde et tentent de l'ordonner selon leur schéma idéal. Cela ne va pas toujours sans heurt. La Paix clunisienne doit se confronter au pouvoir des évêques, des seigneurs laïques et des communautés d'habitants. C'est le cas dans le bourg de Cluny. Défini comme un lieu d'asile, inviolable et soumis à la seule domination de l'abbé, il se développe aux portes du monastère à partir de l'an mil. Là les moines rêvent d'établir une communauté préfigurant la cité céleste, annulant toute attache charnelle au profit d'associations spirituelles dont ils sont les pivots. Le développement du commerce, la concurrence très forte des agents du roi dans le domaine de la justice et l'organisation des communautés paroissiales introduisent la discorde dans cette sphère voulue parfaite.


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Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet
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ISBN: 9780801452994 0801452996 9781501700927 1501700928 150170091X Year: 2016 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he and his entourage crossed the Alps en route from Rome to Burgundy. Ultimately, the abbot was set free and returned home safely, but the audacity of this abduction outraged Christian leaders and galvanized the will of local lords. Shortly thereafter, Count William of Arles marshaled an army and succeeded in wiping out the Muslim stronghold. In Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet, Scott G. Bruce uses this extraordinary incident, largely overlooked by contemporary scholars, to examine Christian perceptions of Islam in the Middle Ages. The monks of Cluny kept the tale of their abbot's abduction alive over the next century in hagiographical works and chronicles written to promote his sanctity. Bruce explores the telling and retelling of this story, focusing particularly on the representation of Islam in each account, and how that representation changed over time. The culminating figure in this study is Peter the Venerable, one of Europe's leading intellectuals and abbot of Cluny from 1122 to 1156. Remembered today largely for his views of Islam, Peter commissioned Latin translations of Muslim historical and devotional texts including the Qur'an. As Bruce shows, Peter's thinking on Islam had its roots in the hagiographical tradition of the abduction at La Garde-Freinet. In fact, Peter drew from the stories as he crafted a "Muslim policy" relevant to the mid-twelfth century, a time of great anxiety about Islam in the aftermath of the failed Second Crusade. Compellingly written, Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet provides us with an unparalleled opportunity to examine Christian perceptions of Islam in the Crusading era.

Silence and sign: language in medieval monasticism: the Cluniac tradition, c.900-1200
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ISBN: 9780521123938 9780521860802 0521860806 9780511496417 9780511367496 051136749X 0511366272 9780511366277 0511496419 1107177863 1281146110 9786611146115 0511366906 1139131761 0511365640 0521123933 Year: 2009 Volume: 4th ser., 68. Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism explores the rationales for religious silence in early medieval abbeys and the use of nonverbal forms of communication among monks when rules of silence forbade them from speaking. After examining the spiritual benefits of personal silence as a form of protection against the perils of sinful discourse in early monastic thought, this work shows how the monks of the Abbey of Cluny (founded in 910 in Burgundy) were the first to employ a silent language of meaning-specific hand signs that allowed them to convey precise information without recourse to spoken words. Scott Bruce discusses the linguistic character of the Cluniac sign language, its central role in the training of novices, the precautions taken to prevent its abuse, and the widespread adoption of this custom in other abbeys throughout Europe, which resulted in the creation of regionally specific idioms of this silent language.

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