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Since the monasteries had done so much to create the new Europe now bursting into architectural flower, it is appropriate that there are two families of churches that express the greatness of Burgundian federative monasticism: Cluny and Cîteaux. Cluny ultimately had about 1,400 dependencies under centralized rule, of which about 200 were important establishments. The Cistercians had a ramified system that ultimately included 742 monasteries and about 900 nunneries. It was Cluny that, after an impressive rebuilding of the monastery buildings (1077–85), undertook the Maior Ecclesia, or Cluny III (1088–1130 and later). Until it was largely demolished in the early ...(100 of 75936 words)