Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

by Dan Jones

Cluny III was more than twice the size of Justinian’s Hagia Sophia and substantially bigger than the Umayyads’ glorious Great Mosque of Damascus.

Cluny III was a masterpiece of an architectural style that would come to be known as Romanesque,

Cluny III was not consecrated until 1130—nearly half a century after ground was broken.