The Second Crusade: extending the frontiers of Christendom/
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New Haven [Conn.] ; London:
Yale University Press,
c2007
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- List of maps
- List of illustrations
- Prologue: Fall of Edessa, December 1144
- Introduction
- 1: Ongoing contact between the Latin East and the West and the development of crusading, 1099-1145
- 2: Legacy of the first crusade in writing, reputations and architecture
- 3: Quantum praedecessores: the crusade appeal of Pope Eugenius III: context and content
- 4: Launch of the second crusade : Bourges, Vezelay and the preaching message of Bernard of Clairvaux
- 5: Bernard's preaching tour to Flanders and Germany: the attacks on the Jews and the recruitment of King Conrad III
- 6: People, practicalities and motivation
- 7: Final preparations of Louis and Conrad: diplomacy, regency and ceremonial
- 8: Conquest of Lisbon
- 9: Conrad's march to Constantinople and into Asia Minor
- 10: March of Louis VII to Constantinople and into Asia Minor
- 11: Crusade at Antioch and the siege of Damascus
- 12: Wendish Crusade
- 13: Crusading in Iberia: Almeria, Jaen, Tortosa, and Lerida
- 14: Aftermath of the second crusade in the Holy Land and the West
- Appendix 1: Translation of Quantum praedecessores
- Appendix 2: Translation of Chevalier, mult estes guariz
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.