France, Abbaye de Cluny 910 - A History of Romanesque Architecture 300 - 1300 (sitios de interés)
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This marker is part of an illustrated Survey of Romanesque Architecture, 300 to 1300 AD. To see and read all comments you have to download the post to your hard disk.France, Abbaye de Cluny 910
was founded in 910 by William I, Count of the Auvergne, who installed Abbot Berno and placed the abbey under the immediate authority of Pope Sergius III.
The Benedictine order was a keystone to the stability that European society achieved in the 11th century, and partly owing to the stricter adherence to a reformed Benedictine rule, Cluny became the acknowledged leader of western monasticism from the later 10th century. A sequence of highly competent abbots of Cluny were statesmen on an international stage. The monastery of Cluny itself became the grandest, most prestigious and best endowed monastic institution in Europe. The height of Cluniac influence was from the second half of the 10th century through the early 12th. The Abbey was sacked and mostly destroyed in 1790 by a mob of revolutionaries. Only a small part of the original remains.
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