The 11th and 12th centuries were the first golden age, as Moissac was affiliated to the abbey of Cluny and accepted the Cluniac Reforms, under the guidance of Durand de Bredons, both the Abbot of Moissac and the bishop of Toulouse.
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The term comes from the Latin " decanus ", " a leader of ten ", taken from the monasteries ( particularly those following the Cluniac Reforms ) which were often extremely large, with hundreds of monks ( the size of a small college campus ).
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Many other words of Germanic origin were incorporated into the Galician language, most notably from during the 12th and 13th centuries, from French and Occitan, as French and Occitan culture ( through the Cluniac reform and Cistercian monks; French noblemen, migrants, pilgrims and stonemasons; and Proven�al lyrics ) had a massive cultural impact in Galicia during the Middle Ages.
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The Cluniac reform movement had already begun with Berno of Cluny at the beginning of the 10th century, but the monasteries reformed by the monks of Cluny during the reigns of Odo and Aymard ( 2nd and 3rd abbots of Cluny ) were still independent monasteries of Cluny; this meant that after they were reformed, the authority that the Abbot of Cluny had over these monasteries also thereby ended.
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Thanks to Aquitanian cantors the network of the Cluniac Monastic Association was not only a problematic accumulation of political power during the crusades among aristocratic churchmen, which caused rebellions in several Benedictine monasteries and the foundation of new anti-Cluniac reform orders, they also cultivated new forms of chant performance which dealt with poetry, and polyphony like " discantus " and " organum ".
