Cluny, el Camino Francés y la Reforma Gregoriana

Abstract

A long historical tradition links the Burgundian abbey of Cluny with the expansion of the road to Santiago, the introduction of the Gregorian reform and the Roman rite in the kingdoms of Castile and León, as well as political and artistic openness of the peninsula to the rest of Europe during the late eleventh century. This article explores the reality of such assertions in the sources and points out that the development of the pilgrimage route must be ascribed to the Hispanics kings, the Gregorian reform to Cardinal Richard, abbot of St. Victor of Marseilles, and that the influence of the cluniac abbey under Hugues de Semur was very limited in time and space.