In praise of the new knighthood : a treatise on the Knights Templar and the holy places of Jerusalem

The monk and the knight -- the two quintessentially medieval European heroes -- were combined in the Knights Templar and in the other military orders founded in the era of the Crusades. With characteristic eloquence, Bernard of Clairvaux voices the cleric's view of knights, warfare, and the conquest of the Holy Land in five chapters on the knights' vocation. Then the cistercian abbot who never visited Palestine and discouraged monks who proposed doing so, in another eight chapters, provides a spiritual tour of the pilgrimage sites guarded by this 'new kind of knighthood and one unknown to ages gone by.' The monk and the knight 'the two quintessentially medieval European heroes 'were combined in the Knights Templar, men who took the monastic vows and defended the holy places and pilgrims. With characteristic eloquence, Bernard of Clairvaux voices the cleric's view of the knights, warfare, and the conquest of the Holy Land in five chapters on the knight's vocation. Then, in another eight chapters the abbot who never visited the Holy Land provides a spiritual tour of the pilgrimage sites guarded by this 'new kind of knighthood.' Prologue......Page 1 CHAPTER ONE. A WORD OF EXHORTATION FOR THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE......Page 2 CHAPTER THREE. ON THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD......Page 3 CHAPTER FOUR. ON THE LIFE STYLE OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE......Page 5