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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, 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.'
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-60724-203-1
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Publication Date: Apr 21,2010
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 97
Languages: English
ISBN: 978-1-60724-203-1
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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.'

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.'

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Bernard ofClairvaux

M.Greenia OCSO

MalcolmBarber

  • TABLE OF CONTENTS (page 7)
  • TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS (page 9)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 11)
  • TRANSLATOR'S NOTE (page 31)
  • PROLOGUE (page 33)
  • CHAPTER ONE: A WORD OF EXHORTATION FOR THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE (page 35)
  • CHAPTER TWO: ON WORLDLY KNIGHTHOOD (page 39)
  • CHAPTER THREE: ON THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD (page 41)
  • CHAPTER FOUR: ON THE LIFESTYLE OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE (page 47)
  • CHAPTER FIVE: THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM (page 51)
  • CHAPTER SIX: BETHLEHEM (page 55)
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: NAZARETH (page 57)
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND THE VALLEY OF JOSAPHAT (page 61)
  • CHAPTER NINE: THE JORDAN (page 63)
  • CHAPTER TEN: MOUNT CALVARY (page 65)
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE HOLY SEPULCHER (page 67)
  • CHAPTER TWELVE: BETHPHAGE (page 79)
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN: BETHANY (page 81)
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 85)
  • INDEX TO IN PRAISE OF THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD (page 89)
  • SCRIPTURAL INDEX (page 93)
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