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Cluny , former abbey, E France, in the present Saône-et-Loire dept., founded (910) by St. Berno, a Burgundian monk and reformer. Cluny was one of the chief religious and cultural centers of Europe. The third abbey church built on the site, Cluny III (11th cent.), was designed in the mature Romanesque style. As reconstructed by Kenneth J. Conant, Cluny III was a five-aisle basilica with double transepts and five radiating chapels around the apse. Towers marked the major and minor crossings of the nave, the major transept arms, and the western facade. When completed in the 12th cent., Cluny... Read more

Cluny, Order of
Cluny, Order of A reformed Benedictine monastic order, whose mother house was the abbey of Cluny in France, founded by Duke William of Aquitaine in 909. Under Abbot Odilo (994–1048) Cluny became the head of a system of dependent “daughter... Read more

Cluny
Cluny, Cluniacs. The monastery of Cluny, in Burgundy, was founded in 909/10. The high standard of monastic...Cluniac houses exceeded 1,000, with control highly centralized. Cluny then exercised great influence on the life of the Church and largely... Read more

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