In Praise of the New Knighthood: A Treatise on the Knights Templar and the Holy Places of Jerusalem (Monastic Studies)

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.' TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION TRANSLATOR’S NOTE PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE. A WORD OF EXHORTATION FOR THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE CHAPTER TWO. ON WORLDLY KNIGHTHOOD CHAPTER THREE. ON THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD CHAPTER FOUR. ON THE LIFESTYLE OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE CHAPTER FIVE. THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM CHAPTER SIX. BETHLEHEM CHAPTER SEVEN. NAZARETH CHAPTER EIGHT. THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND THE VALLEY OF JOSAPHAT CHAPTER NINE. THE JORDAN CHAPTER TEN. MOUNT CALVARY CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE HOLY SEPULCHER CHAPTER TWELVE. BETHPHAGE CHAPTER THIRTEEN. BETHANY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX TO IN PRAISE OF THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD SCRIPTURAL INDEX

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.'