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Cluniacs (Corporate Name)

Preferred form: Cluniacs
Used for/see from:
  • Order of Cluny
  • Ordre de Cluny
  • Cluniac Order
  • Ordo Cluniacensis
  • Benedictines. Congrégation de Cluny
  • Cluniac Benedictines
  • Benedictines. Cluny Congregation

Evans, J. The romanesque architecture of the Order of Cluny, 1938.

Cowdrey, H.E.J. The Cluniacs and the Gregorian reform, 1970.

Cistercians and Cluniacs, 1977.

Constable, G. Cluniac studies, 1980.

LC manual cat. (hdg.: Cluniacs; usage: Ordre de Cluny; info: St. Anselm's Abbey in D.C. consulted re hdg.)

New Cath. encyc. (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) (Cluny, Abbey of: f. 909; heyday under abbots Odilo (994-1049) and Hugh (1049-1109); as more monasteries adopted Cluniac customs and Cluny founded priories there came into existence an Ordo Cluniacensis; 1184 houses at peak ca. 1100; in 17th cent. the Order was divided into Old Observance and Strict Observance [no publs. in LC data base]; it came to an end Feb. 19, 1790)

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