Cluniac Reforms

The Cluniac reforms was said to be "series of changes within medieval monasticism, focused on restoring the traditional monastic life, encouraging art, and caring for the poor." During the height of the reform, it was one of the largest religious forces in Europe.William of Aquitaine formed the first cluny in 910. Late his cluny invaded thousands of monasteries. Because of the reform, people demanded more altar vessels of gold, fine tapestries and fabrics, stained glass, and polyphonic choral music to fill the churches. Also the Cluniac reform was one that was expressed with the architecture, and was on of the more important reforms that contributed to the advancement of architecture.

Web. 27 Apr. 2010.http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Cluniac_Reforms.

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