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Cluniac Reforms

10th–12th centuries · 10th century · Also known as Cluniac reform

The Cluniac Reforms were a movement of monastic renewal centred on the Benedictine abbey of Cluny in Burgundy, founded in 910. Cluny answered directly to the pope, and its elaborate liturgy and network of dependent priories spread across Latin Europe. In Iberia the kings of León-Castile, above all Alfonso VI, endowed Cluny generously and helped replace the old Hispanic rite with the Roman liturgy.

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Cluniac Reforms. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/cluniac-reforms
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