Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA

'For close to half-a-century now, Giles Constable has been one of the pillars of medieval monastic studies ...every monastic library would serve itself well by striving to have a full collection of the writings of Giles Constable.' American Benedictine Review

• Contents: Preface; Cluny in the monastic world of the tenth century; Seniores et pueri à Cluny aux Xe, XIe siècles; Entrance to Cluny in the eleventh and twelfth centuries according to the Cluniac customaries and statutes; The reception-privilege of Cluny in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; The interdict-and excommunication-privilege for Cluny in the Papal Bulls of 1097 and 1100; From Cluny to Cîteaux; Cluny and the First Crusade; Baume and Cluny in the twelfth century; Les listes de propriétés dans les privilèges pour Baume-les-Messieurs aux XIe et XIIe siècles; Commemoration and confraternity at Cluny during the abbacy of Peter the Venerable; An unpublished letter by Peter the Venerable to the Priors of Paray-le-Monial, Mesvres, and Luzy in 1147; The Abbots and Anti-Abbot of Cluny during the Papal Schism of 1159; The Abbot and townsmen of Cluny in the twelfth century; Addenda; Bibliography; Index.

Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA

'For close to half-a-century now, Giles Constable has been one of the pillars of medieval monastic studies ...every monastic library would serve itself well by striving to have a full collection of the writings of Giles Constable.' American Benedictine Review

• Contents: Preface; Cluny in the monastic world of the tenth century; Seniores et pueri à Cluny aux Xe, XIe siècles; Entrance to Cluny in the eleventh and twelfth centuries according to the Cluniac customaries and statutes; The reception-privilege of Cluny in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; The interdict-and excommunication-privilege for Cluny in the Papal Bulls of 1097 and 1100; From Cluny to Cîteaux; Cluny and the First Crusade; Baume and Cluny in the twelfth century; Les listes de propriétés dans les privilèges pour Baume-les-Messieurs aux XIe et XIIe siècles; Commemoration and confraternity at Cluny during the abbacy of Peter the Venerable; An unpublished letter by Peter the Venerable to the Priors of Paray-le-Monial, Mesvres, and Luzy in 1147; The Abbots and Anti-Abbot of Cluny during the Papal Schism of 1159; The Abbot and townsmen of Cluny in the twelfth century; Addenda; Bibliography; Index.