Companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages

Scott G. Bruce, Ph.D. (2000), Princeton University, is Professor of Medieval History at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. He has published several books on the history of Cluny, most recently (with Christopher A. Jones) The Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus: A Twelfth-Century Cluniac Poem on Prayer for the Dead (Brepols, 2016).Steven Vanderputten, Ph.D. (2000), Ghent University, is Professor in the History of the Early and High Middle Ages at Ghent University. He has published extensively on the history of monastic life in the medieval West, among other places in his latest monograph Medieval Monasticisms. Forms and Experiences of the Monastic Life in the Latin West (De Gruyter/Oldenbourg, 2020).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionSteven Vanderputten and Scott G. BrucePART 1: A Brief History of Cluny and Cluniac Monasticism1 Tenth-Century ClunyIsabelle Rosé2 The Emergence of the Ecclesia CluniacensisSteven Vanderputten3 Challenges of the Twelfth CenturyMarc Saurette4 Cluny in the Later Middle Ages and BeyondDenyse RichePART 2: Cluniac Identities5 Imagining Early Cluny in Abbatial BiographiesSteven Vanderputten6 Shaping Cluniac DevotionSusan Boynton7 Archaeology and the Abbey of ClunyAnne Baud8 Shaping Cluniac MemorySébastien BarretPART 3: The Cares of the Cloister9 Abbatial LordshipRobert F. Berkhofer III10 Discipline and the Problem of Cluny’s CustomariesIsabelle Cochelin11 The General Chapter and Cluniac LegislationMichael Hänchen and Gert Melville12 Cluny and Religious WomenEliana MagnaniPART 4: Beyond the Cloister13 Cluny and Lay PatronageConstance B. Bouchard14 The Problem of Cluniac ExemptionBenjamin Pohl15 Cluny and the CrusadesScott G. Bruce16 The Relics of ClunyScott G. BruceIndex