Cluny: In Search of God's Lost Empire
Edwin Mullins, . . BlueBridge, $24.95 (245pp) ISBN 978-1-933346-00-7
During the Middle Ages, the abbey at Cluny, in southern France, towered over every other church in Christendom, both physically and spiritually. An architectural marvel, the abbey also served as the headquarters for a steadily growing monastic movement directed by the Rule of Benedict of Nursia. By the end of the 12th century, however, the abbey's fortunes had begun to decline, thanks to external challenges to the authority of the church and internal conflicts about Cluny's mismanagement of financial resources. By turns prosaic and lively, this loving paean to Cluny by Mullins, a former art correspondent for the
Reviewed on: 07/31/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 256 pages - 978-1-933346-17-5