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This bibliography arose out of my study of the former priory church at Paray-le-Monial for my doctoral dissertation in art history at Yale University. I began this bibliography neither out of admiration of or because I think Conant was a great architectural historian (or what the French would call archéologue), but rather out of sheer frustration. Conant had an ability to present an idea in print and then change his mind about it in a later work without explanation, or citing evidence and often would do so without any reference to his earlier idea. Whether he was right or wrong in his conclusions Conant made Cluny his life project and those of us who follow him need to consider his ideas. I hope that what I have accumulated here helps make what he presented of this study in print more easily available to others.
I have gone to very great lengths to ensure that the bibliography is complete. I wish I were certain that it were so. At any rate, I have used the Art Index, RILA, Répetoire de Art et Archéologie, International Medieval Bibliography, the Musée d'Ochier at Cluny, the Departmental Archives of Saône-et-Loire in Mâcon, the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, the Conant Archives in the Loeb Library at Harvard University, and the various electronic databases available on First Search and elsewhere, as well as other long forgotten sources. I would appreciate any corrections or references which have been omitted. I can be reached at mkerr@reed.edu.
1928a "La chapelle Saint-Gabriel à Cluny," Bulletin monumental 87 (1928) 55-64.
1928b "Five old prints of the abbey church of Cluny," Speculum 3 (1928) 401-404.
1929a "Les fouilles de Cluny," Bulletin monumental 88 (1929) 109-23.
1929b "Mediaeval Academy Excavations at Cluny: [I] The season of 1928," Speculum 4 (1929) 3-26.
1929c "Mediaeval Academy Excavations at Cluny: II Preliminary restoration drawings of the abbey church," Speculum 4 (1929) 168-76.
1929d "Mediaeval Academy Excavations at Cluny: III Drawings and photographs of the transept," Speculum 4 (1929) 291-302.
1929e "Mediaeval Academy Excavations at Cluny: IV The significance of the abbey church," Speculum 4 (1929) 443-50.
1929f "Recent research and excavation at Cluny," Parnassus 1:2 (February 15, 1929) 23.
1930a "La date des chapiteaux du choeur de l'abbaye de Cluny," Bulletin monumental 89 (1930) 381-85.
1930b "Mediaeval Academy Excavations at Cluny: V The date of the ambulatory capitals," Speculum 5 (1930) 77-94.
1930c "The iconography and the sequence of the ambulatory capitals of Cluny," Speculum 5 (1930) 278-87.
1930d "Propos d'histoire de l'art: `l'école clunisienne,'" Annales de Bourgogne 2 (1930) 321-25.
1931a "Mediaeval Academy Excavations at Cluny: [VI] The season of 1929," Speculum 6 (1931) 3-14.
1931b "Le problème de Cluny d'après les fouilles recentes," Revue de l'art 2 (1931) 141-54 & 189-204.
1932a "The apse at Cluny," Speculum 7 (1932) 23-35.
1932b "Cluny epigraphy," Speculum 7 (1932) 336-49. The article is by R. Lloyd with additions by Conant.
1932-33 "Le tombeau presumé de l'abbé Ponce de Melgueil, à Cluny," Annales de l'Académie de Mâcon 3me sér. 28 (1932-33) 116-20.
1933a "Excavations at Cluny," Resumés des communications presentées au XIIIme Congrès international de l'histoire de l'art. Stockholm: 1933; 104-106.
1933b "A replica of the arcade of the apse at Cluny," Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University 3 (November 1933) 5-8.
1938 "Communication sur les fouilles," Annales de l'Académie de Macon 3me sér. 33 (1938) xxxi.
1939 "The third church at Cluny," Medieval Studies in Honor of Arthur Kingsley Porter, ed. W. R. W. Koehler. Cambridge, Mass.: 1939; II: 327-57.
1940 [Review of Joan Evans, The Romanesque Architecture of the Order of Cluny. Cambridge/ New York: 1938], Art Bulletin 22 (1940) 276-78.
1942a "Mediaeval Academy Excavations at Cluny: VII Two new books about Cluny," Speculum 17 (1942) 563-65.
1942b "The place of Cluny in Romanesque and Gothic architecture," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA) 2 (July 1942) 3-5.
1942c A Brief Commentary on Early Medieval Church Architecture with Especial Reference to Lost Monuments. Baltimore: 1942; 26-34.
1944a "Observations on the vaulting problems of the period 1088-1211," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6me sér. 26 (1944) 127-34.
1944b "Religion in architecture," The Arts and Religion, (Ayer Lectures: 1943) ed. A. B. Bailey. New York: 1944; 71-89. Cluny: 85-86.
1948 "Cluny, a center of western monasticism," Archaeology 1 (1948) 92-93.
1949 Benedictine Contributions to Church Architecture, (Wimmer Lecture: 1947). Latrobe, Pa.: 1949; 18-35.
1949-50 La préparation et la genèse de la grande abbatiale de Cluny," Bulletin de la Société des Amis des Musée à Dijon (1949-50) 12-14.
1950a "Cluny I and Cluny II," Medieval Studies for Rose Graham, eds. V. Ruffer and A. J. Taylor. Oxford: 1950; 41-50.
1950b "Les églises de Cluny à l'époque de saint Odon et de saint Odilon," À Cluny, congrès scientifique; fêtes et ceremonies liturgiques en honneur des saints abbés Odon et Odilo: 9-11 juillet 1949; travaux du congrès.... Dijon: 1950; 37-43.
1952 "El monasterio de Cluny en Borgoña," Anales del Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo) 5 (1952) 9-20.
1954 "Mediaeval Academy Excavations at Cluny: VIII Final stages for the project," Speculum 29 (1954) 1-43.
1955 "Cluny in the tenth century," Medievalia et Humanistica 9 (1955) 23-25.
1957a "New results in the study of Cluny monastery," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA) 16:3 (October 1957) 3-11.
1957b "Etudes nouvelles sur l'abbaye de Cluny (Saône-et-Loire)," Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France (1957) 164-70.
1958a [Review of Otto von Simson, The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Mediaeval Concept of Order. Princeton: 1956], Speculum 33(1958): 154-158, esp. 157-58.
1958b "The pointed arch--orient to occident," Palaeologia 7:3-4 (November 1958) 267-70.
1959 Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture: 800-1200. Harmondsworth: 1959; 82-84 & 115-25. Cf: 2nd edtn., 1966; 3rd edtn., 1973; 4th. edtn, 1978 with changes in 1979: 116-119 & 198-221.
1960 "Données nouvelles sur les restes de l'abbaye de Cluny," Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France (1960) 88-91.
1960-61 "Les dimensions systématiques et symboliques à l'église abbatiale de Cluny," Annales de l'Académie de Mâcon 3me sér. 45 (1960-61) 2-5.
1961 "Les principes mathématiques à la basilique de Cluny," Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France (1961) 185-86.
1962 "Measurements and proportions of the Great church at Cluny," Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und Archäologie des Frühmittelalters: Akten zum VII. International Kongress für Frühmittelalterforschung 21.-28. september 1958, ed. V. H. Fillitz. Graz: 1962; 220-38.
1963 "Mediaeval Academy Excavations at Cluny, IX: Systematic dimensions in the buildings," Speculum 38 (1963) 1-45.
1965 "Cluny II and Saint-Bénigne at Dijon," Archaeolgia (London) 99 (1965) 179-94.
1966a "Cluny, 1077-1088," Mélanges offerts à René Crozet à l'occasion de son soixante-dixième anniversaire, ed. P. Gallais and Y. J. Riou. Poitiers: 1966; 341-45.
1966b "Les rapports architecturaux entre Cluny et Payerne," L'abbatiale de Payerne; Bibliothèque historique vaudoise: 39. Lausanne: 1966; 125-38.
1968a Cluny, Les églises et la maison du chef d'ordre. Mâcon: 1968.
1968b The after-life of Vitruvius in the middle ages," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA) 27 (1968) 33-38.
1970a "Sur les pas de Lallemand à Cluny," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6me sér. 75 (1970) 1-10.
1970b "Mediaeval Academy Excavations at Cluny, X," Speculum 45 (1970) 1-35.
1971a "La chronologie de Cluny III d'après les fouilles," Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 14 (1971) 341-47.
1971b "The history of Romanesque Cluny as clarified by excavations and comparisons," Monumentum 7 (1971) 10-33.
1971c "Mediaeval Cluny; Renewed study of the monastic buildings," Revue bénédictine 81 (1971) 60-66.
1971d "Observations on the practical talents and technology of the medieval Benedictines," Cluniac Monasticism in the Central Middle Ages, ed. N. Hunt. London: 1971; 77-84.
1971e "Early examples of the pointed arch in Romanesque architecture," Viator 2 (1971) 203-210. Written with H. M. Willard.
1972a " L'abside et le choeur de Cluny III," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6me sér. 79 (1972) 5-12.
1972b "The background of Gothic architecture in Benedictine building," Revue bénédictine 82 (1972) 208-14.
1972c "Deux traditions dans la chronologie du roman bourguignon," Annales de Bourgogne 44 (1972) 94-103.
1973 "Le portail monumental en Bourgogne," Actes des journées d'études d'histoire et d`archéologie organisées à l'occasion du centenaire de la fondation de l`abbaye et de la ville de Charlieu, 14-16 juillet 1972. [Charlieu: 1973]; 23-25.
1974a "The great transept at Cluny III," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA) 33 (1974) [98]-99.
1974b "The enigma of Abbot Berno's tomb at Cluny," Ampleforth Journal 79:part II (Summer 1974): 33-40.
1975a Cluny studies, 1968-1975," Speculum 50 (1975) 383-90.
1975b "Edifices marquants dans l'ambiance de Pierre le Vénérable et Pierre Abélard," Pierre Abélard et Pierre le Vénérable; Colloque internationale du CNRS, Cluny: 1972. Paris: 1975; 727-32.
1975c "Visite commentée de l'abbaye et des fouilles," Pierre Abélard et Pierre le Vénérable; Colloque international du CNRS, Cluny: 1972. Paris: 1975; 69-71.
1976a "The Theophany in the history of church portal design," Gesta 15 (1976) 127-34.
1976b [Review of W. Braunfels, Monasteries of Western Europe: The Architecture of the Orders. London: 1972] Art Bulletin 58 (1976) 287-88.
1977a "A majestic abbey, long destroyed, rises again --on paper," Harvard Magazine 79:5 (January-February 1977) 28-33.
1977b [Review of H. E. Kubach, Romanesque Architecture. New York: 1975] Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA) 36 (1977) 44.
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