The Second Crusade and the Cistercians

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Second Crusade and the Redefinition of Ecclesia, Christianitas and Papal Coercive Power....Pages 3-11
The Pomeranian Missionary Journeys of Otto I of Bamberg and the Crusade Movement of the Eleventh to Twelfth Centuries....Pages 13-23
St. Bernard and the Jurists....Pages 25-33
Crusade Eschatology as Seen by St. Bernard in the Years 1146 to 1148....Pages 35-47
Militia and Malitia: The Bernardine Vision of Chivalry....Pages 49-56
The Influence of St. Bernard of Clairvaux on the Formation of the Order of the Knights Templar....Pages 57-65
Singing the Second Crusade....Pages 67-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
The Origins of the Second Crusade: Pope Eugenius III, Bernard of Clairvaux and Louis VII of France....Pages 79-89
The Origin of the Second Crusade....Pages 91-99
Family Traditions and Participation in the Second Crusade....Pages 101-108
Louis VII and the Counts of Champagne....Pages 109-117
The Crusaders’ Strategy Against Fatimid Ascalon and the “Ascalon Project” of the Second Crusade....Pages 119-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
The Cistercians and the Aftermath of the Second Crusade....Pages 131-140
The Frescoes of Schwarzrheindorf, Arnold of Wied and the Second Crusade....Pages 141-154
Donations to the Hospitallers in England in the Wake of the Second Crusade....Pages 155-161
Looking Back on the Second Crusade: Some Late Twelfth-Century English Perspectives....Pages 163-169
Reflections on Art in Crusader Jerusalem about the Time of the Second Crusade: c.1140–c.1150....Pages 171-182
Cistercian Houses in the Kingdom of Jerusalem....Pages 183-198
The Cistercians in Cyprus....Pages 199-209
Back Matter....Pages 211-266