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# Cluny: In Search of God's Lost Empire

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good read but missing images
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2017*

Easy to read, close up reading of a roughly 2 century period in which Cluny became the leading authority in both church and state (by connection and relation). What would have made this book even better would have been images of places, maps, etc. that the story covers. Describing sculpture in words for a page or so, does not really do it for me, and that's where the book simply disappoints at times; hence one star off. Other than that a good read for understanding the times, and the mind of the times, in as far as possible, as we're still left with a mix of wonder, disappointment and amazement at learning not only ow all this has been built up, but also how it was returned to scrap (almost), and replaced by the 'next wave of new cool' in Catholic religion, called Cistercians, only to see that come to fall prey to the very same thing that they strove against in the first place. Cycles, then is what we're observing here, in times that religion played a major part in culture and society (yet no more, except maybe in other parts of the world, in which respect reading this book might serve one with a dose of relativity). Belief, then is what was (is?) driving people that make up society and makes these movements thriving. Last but not least, for the mixed feelings when reading this; both the Cluny empire and the Cistercians were organizing crusades, for a variety of reasons. Imagine that in these days; sort of like an army crossing a continent on their way to a battle field in the name of yes, you guess it...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A truly inspiring book
  

*by L***O on Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2014*

This book was wonderful.  My reason for ordering it was that my wife and I had just visited Cluny and saw that it had been an amazing place.  We were intrigued enough to want to learn more about it.  The author of this book is a very good writer with much insight into the Medieval Period, having done extensive research and using wonderful turn of phrase in order to illustrate facts presented.  Cluny itself was a very significant part of Church history, and one wonders why we simply don't hear much about it these days.  The book shows that the tenth through the thirteenth centuries spanned a time when orthodox religion was paramount in people's minds, unlike today when novelties of the modern world tend to drown it out.This book has caused us to actually want to return to Burgundy, both to Cluny itself and to see other sites which Cluny had inspired during this period in history.  I recommend it whole-heartedly.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good material marred by factual errors and lack of perspective
  

*by G***F on Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2007*

The story is fascinating and worthy of a five star book. This isn't that book.Why not?One star off for factual errors. Even little things add up. For example, Mullins at one point calls Cluny an ally of the Vatican. Politically and religiously, that may be true--but the Holy See was run out of the Lateran Palace, not the Vatican, until the 14th century. A minor point, to be sure, but it's far from the only such lapse. And inattention to little details I know about makes me wonder how much I can trust details I don't know about.One star off for lack of perspective. One need not be a medieval Catholic to write about Cluny. But it helps, considerably, to have thought more about the medieval era and its perspective than Mullins seems to have done. What we are given is the reflexive prejudices of the early 21st century, and only lip service to the idea that religious faith and love of God may have had as much--or more--to do with goings-on at Cluny than money, power, misogyny, and a "morbid fear of death." Every author brings his views to his books. A good author should at least make an attempt to understand his subject's views as well, and I didn't see much evidence of that here.

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