Table of Contents

Part 1 Background and ideology: the Second Crusade and the redefinition of Ecclesia, Christianitas and papal coercive power, Y. Katzir; the Pomeranian missionary journeys of Otto I of Bamberg and the crusade movement of the 11th to 12th centuries, K. Guth; St Bernard and the Jurists, J.A. Brundage; crusade eschatology as seen by St Bernard in the years 1146 to 1148, H-D. Kahl; militia and malitia - the Bernadine vision of chivalry, A. Grabois; the influence of St Bernard of Clairvaux on the formation of the Order of the Knights Templars, M.L. Bulst-Thiele; singing the Second Crusade, M. Switten. Part 2 The crusade: the origins of the Second Crusade - Pope Eugenius III, Bernard of Clairvaux and Louis VII of France, J.G. Rowe; the origin of the Second Crusade, G. Ferzoco; family traditions and participation in the Second Crusade, J. Riley-Smith; Louis VII and the Counts of Champagne, T. Evergates; the crusaders' strategy against Fatimid Ascalon and the "Ascalon Project" of the Second Crusade, M. Hoch. Part 3 The aftermath: the Cistercians and the aftermath of the Second Crusade, B.M. Bolton; the frescoes of Schwarzrheindorf, Arnold of Wied and the Second Crusade, A. Derbes; donations to the Hospitallers in England in the wake of the Second Crusade, M. Gervers; looking back on the Second Crusade - some late 12th-century English perspectives, P.W. Edbury; reflections on art in crusader Jerusalem about the time of the Second Crusade, J. Folda; Cistercian houses in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, D. Pringle; the Cistercians in Cyprus, J. Richard.