LC control no. | n 81141832 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Cluny (Benedictine abbey) |
Variant(s) | Cluny, France (Benedictine abbey) Cluny Abbey Abbaye de Cluny Abbey of Cluny Cluny (France). Abbaye de Cluny Cluny (France). Abbey |
See also | Cluniacs |
Beginning date | 0909 |
Located | Cluny (France) |
Field of activity | Monasticism and religious orders |
Affiliation | Benedictines |
Found in | Rosenwein, 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) |