HIST-281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cluniac Reforms, Peter Damian, Order Of Saint Benedict
22 Oct 2020
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In 910, the clerics of aquitaine sought funding from their duke, william. They used it to build a new, improved monastic abbey to be an agent of change in the church. Organized monasticism had been present in the latin west since the 6th century. The cluniacs thought that most benedictines had grown lazy and corrupt. The abbey of cluny thus became an entirely new order, even if it still used the old benedictine rule. Monks were expected to work and pray much harder. The abbot was the supreme authority at cluny. Those popes knew little of aquitaine to begin with. Local bishops and dukes were kept out of cluny"s business. Most important of all was the cluniacs seeded new monasteries across latin europe. Each new franchise had to report back to the abbot of cluny. Henry iii and leo ix wanted a broader reform of the entire church. This would trickle down to the laity: papal crackdown.
