The Second Crusade : extending the frontiers of Christendom

The Second Crusade : extending the frontiers of Christendom /

The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. But, to the shock and dismay of a society raised on the triumpha...

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Main Author: Phillips, Jonathan (Jonathan P.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Geschichte.
1147-1149
Geschichte
Crusades > Second, 1147-1149.
Croisades > 2e croisade, 1147-1149.
Crusades.
Kreuzzug > 1147-1149
Kruistochten.
Pausdom.
Andra korståget 1147-1149.
Europa (geografie)
Lissabon.
Latijns Koninkrijk van Jeruzalem.
Church history.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The fall of Edessa, December 1144
  • Ongoing contact between the Latin east and the west and the development of crusading, 1099-1145
  • The legacy of the first crusade in writing, reputations and architecture
  • Quantum praedecessores: the crusade appeal of Pope Eugenius III: context and content
  • The launch of the second crusade: Bourges, Vezelay and the preaching message of Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Bernard's preaching tour to Flanders and Germany: the attacks on the Jews and the recruitment of King Conrad III
  • People, practicalities and motivation
  • The final preparations of Louis and Conrad: diplomacy, regency and ceremonial
  • The conquest of Lisbon
  • Conrad's march to Constantinople and into Asia Minor
  • The march of Louis VII to Constantinople and into Asia Minor
  • The crusade at Antioch and the siege of Damascus
  • The Wendish crusade
  • Crusading in Iberia: Almería, Jaen, Tortosa, and Lérida
  • The aftermath of the second crusade in the Holy Land and the West
  • Translation of Quantum praedecessores
  • Translation of Chevalier, mult estes guariz.

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