Merovingian, Carolingian and Cluniac Monasticism: Reform and Renewal in Burgundy
Constance B. Bouchard
Monastic renewal of the eleventh century used to be treated by scholars as essentially Cluniac : Cluny, head an order totalling hundreds houses, spread its reform across Europe tide spreads a beach. More recently, since Kassius Hallinger demonstrated existence multiple centres in his classic study Gorze, it has become common draw distinctions between ‘Cluniac’ and ‘young’ (or ‘second-generation’) influences, Cluny's ‘order’ been redefined include only priories directly dependent on abbot, encompassing not houses but dozens. However, is still commonly something new unprecedented tenth centuries prefiguring monastic High Middle Ages.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History