In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south
of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he
and his entourage crossed the Alps en route from Rome to Burgundy.
Ultimately, the abbot was set free, but the audacity of this
abduction outraged Christian leaders and galvanized the will of
local lords. Shortly thereafter, Count William of Arles marshaled
an army and succeeded in wiping out the Muslim stronghold. The
monks of Cluny kept this tale alive over the next century. Scott G.
Bruce explores the telling and retelling of this story, focusing on
the representation of Islam in each account and how that
representation changed over time. The culminating figure in this
study is Peter the Venerable, one of Europe's leading intellectuals
and abbot of Cluny from 1122 to 1156, who commissioned Latin
translations of Muslim texts such as the Qur'an. Cluny and the
Muslims of La Garde-Freinet provides us with an unparalleled
opportunity to examine Christian perceptions of Islam in the
Crusading era.
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