Medievalists.net » Cluny http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 An abbot between two cultures: Maiolus of Cluny considers the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/an-abbot-between-two-cultures-maiolus-of-cluny-considers-the-muslims-of-la-garde-freinet/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/an-abbot-between-two-cultures-maiolus-of-cluny-considers-the-muslims-of-la-garde-freinet/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:20:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46899 In July 972, Muslim raiders from the citadel of Fraxinetum (modern La Garde-Freinet) abducted Abbot Maiolus of Cluny and his entourage as they crossed the Great Saint Bernard Pass ( Mons Iovis ) in the western Alps.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/an-abbot-between-two-cultures-maiolus-of-cluny-considers-the-muslims-of-la-garde-freinet/feed/ 0 El Cid, Cluny and the Medieval Spanish Reconquista http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/14/el-cid-cluny-and-the-medieval-spanish-reconquista/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/14/el-cid-cluny-and-the-medieval-spanish-reconquista/#comments Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:46:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46667 Rodrigo Díaz, better known by his title El Cid, has traditionally been portrayed as one of the great heroes of Spanish history, perhaps the perhaps the Spanish national hero par excellence.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/14/el-cid-cluny-and-the-medieval-spanish-reconquista/feed/ 0 Construction Materials and Building Constructions in the Architecture of Medieval Rus, from the 10th to the Beginning of the 12th Centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/20/construction-materials-and-building-constructions-in-the-architecture-of-medieval-rus-from-the-10th-to-the-beginning-of-the-12th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/20/construction-materials-and-building-constructions-in-the-architecture-of-medieval-rus-from-the-10th-to-the-beginning-of-the-12th-centuries/#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:40:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45063 Construction Materials and Building Constructions in the Architecture of Medieval Rus, from the 10th to the Beginning of the 12th Centuries Bernhard Flüge Paper given at: The Masons at Work Conference (2012) Abstract Everybody knows that the Burgundian abbey of Cluny was one of the intellectual and spiri- tual centres of Europe during the High […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/20/construction-materials-and-building-constructions-in-the-architecture-of-medieval-rus-from-the-10th-to-the-beginning-of-the-12th-centuries/feed/ 0 Construction and Conception Techniques of Residential Buildings and Urbanism in Medieval Europe around 1100 AD: The Example of Cluny, France http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/16/construction-and-conception-techniques-of-residential-buildings-and-urbanism-in-medieval-europe-around-1100-ad-the-example-of-cluny-france/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/16/construction-and-conception-techniques-of-residential-buildings-and-urbanism-in-medieval-europe-around-1100-ad-the-example-of-cluny-france/#comments Sat, 16 Nov 2013 20:26:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=44908 Everybody knows that the Burgundian abbey of Cluny was one of the intellectual and spiritual centres of Europe during the High Middle Ages. But also the surrounding little town is of scientific interest.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/16/construction-and-conception-techniques-of-residential-buildings-and-urbanism-in-medieval-europe-around-1100-ad-the-example-of-cluny-france/feed/ 0 Bernard of Morlaix: the literature of complaint, the Latin tradition and the twelfth-century “Renaissance” http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/09/bernard-of-morlaix-the-literature-of-complaint-the-latin-tradition-and-the-twelfth-century-renaissance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/09/bernard-of-morlaix-the-literature-of-complaint-the-latin-tradition-and-the-twelfth-century-renaissance/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 02:26:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39685 Bernard of Morlaix was a monk of the order of Cluny who flourished around 1140. Excerpts from one of his poems appear in some anthologies of medieval Latin verse1 and he is briefly noticed in some works on the twelfth-century renaissance, but he has received little critical attention and only one of his poems has been translated from the Latin.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/09/bernard-of-morlaix-the-literature-of-complaint-the-latin-tradition-and-the-twelfth-century-renaissance/feed/ 0 Abbot Majolus of Cluny, Ambassador to the Dead http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/06/abbot-majolus-of-cluny-ambassador-to-the-dead/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/06/abbot-majolus-of-cluny-ambassador-to-the-dead/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:44:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36943 This paper was part of a intriguing session on monasticism entitled: SESSION IV: Abbots between Ideals and Institutions, 10th–12th Centuries. Here, we meet the unsung hero of Cluny's early history, Abbot Majolus.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/06/abbot-majolus-of-cluny-ambassador-to-the-dead/feed/ 0 The ruling as a clue to the make-up of a medieval manuscript http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/the-ruling-as-a-clue-to-the-make-up-of-a-medieval-manuscript/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/the-ruling-as-a-clue-to-the-make-up-of-a-medieval-manuscript/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:51:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36641 The purpose of this inquiry is to try to reconstruct the original state of the manuscript using ruling as a clue.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/the-ruling-as-a-clue-to-the-make-up-of-a-medieval-manuscript/feed/ 0 Glaber’s Cluniac preoccupations http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/19/glabers-cluniac-preoccupations/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/19/glabers-cluniac-preoccupations/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:30:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34952 In this thesis I examine a set of specific themes and ideas in the works of Rodulfus Glaber that type him as a Cluniac monk of the early eleventh century.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/19/glabers-cluniac-preoccupations/feed/ 0 Religious Orders and Growth through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/religious-orders-and-growth-through-cultural-change-in-pre-industrial-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/religious-orders-and-growth-through-cultural-change-in-pre-industrial-england/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:22:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33925 The central hypothesis advanced in the present study is that the cultural virtues emphasized by Weber had a pre-Reformation origin in the religious Order of the Cistercians, a Catholic order which spread across Europe as of the 11th century, and that this monastic order served to stimulate growth during the second millennium by encouraging cultural change in local populations.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/religious-orders-and-growth-through-cultural-change-in-pre-industrial-england/feed/ 0 A Cluniac Office of the Dead http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/a-cluniac-office-of-the-dead/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/a-cluniac-office-of-the-dead/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:35:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33922 The office of the dead has become a familiar portion of the divine office to anyone who studies chant, but this is the limit of most research. Although Cluny maintained a reputation for its frequent celebration of the office of the dead, the Cluniac office of the dead has only been mentioned in passing in many chant studies.

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