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Cluny (Benedictine abbey)

LC control no.n 81141832
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingCluny (Benedictine abbey)
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Variant(s)Cluny, France (Benedictine abbey)
Cluny Abbey
Abbaye de Cluny
Abbey of Cluny
Cluny (France). Abbaye de Cluny
Cluny (France). Abbey
See alsoCluniacs
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Beginning date0909
LocatedCluny (France)
Field of activityMonasticism and religious orders
AffiliationBenedictines
Found inRosenwein, B.H. Rhinoceros bound, 1982: t.p. (Cluny)
New Cath. encyc. (Cluny, Abbey of: Benedictine abbey of primary importance in reform of church in Middle Ages; founded 909 by Duke William of Aquitaine; as more monasteries adopted Cluniac customs and Cluny founded priories there came into existence an Ordo Cluniacensis; 1184 houses at peak ca. 1100) (Cluniac reform: because of specific historical circumstances Cluny abbey rapidly became the center of a vast movement of reform that continued until the 12th cent.; Order of Cluny; the Cluniacs; the Cluniac Order)
Colliers, 1973 (Cluny Abbey)
EB, 1975 (Cluny)