In Praise of the New Knighthood: Volume 19

by Bernard of Clairvaux, Conrad Greenia (Translator), Malcolm Barber (Introduction)

Overview

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 knight-hood and one unknow to ages bone by'.   

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879071202
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	11/01/2001
Series:	Cistercian Fathers , #19
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	436,831
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION   9
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE   29
IN PRAISE OF THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD
PROLOGUE     31
CHAPTER ONE
   A Word of Exhortation   33
CHAPTER TWO
   On Worldly Knighthood   37 
CHAPTER THREE
   On the New Knighthood   39
CHAPTER FOUR
   On the Lifestyle of the Knights of the Temple   45
CHAPTER FIVE
   The Temple of Jerusalem   49
CHAPTER SIX
   Bethlehem   53
CHAPTER SEVEN
   Nazareth 55
CHAPTER EIGHT
   The Mount of Olives and the Valley of Josaphat   59
CHAPTER NINE
   The Jordan   61
CHAPTER TEN
   Mount Calvary   63
CHAPTER ELEVEN
   The Holy Sepulcher   65
CHAPTER TWELVE
   Bethphage   77
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
   Bethany   79
SEECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY   83
INDEX TO IN PRAISE OF THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD   87
SCRIPTURAL INDEX   91