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

by Bernard of Clairvaux

Publisher:

Cistercian Publications

, 2008

Overview

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’.

Product Details

• Title: In Praise of the New Knighthood: A Treatise on the Knights Templar and the Holy Places of Jerusalem
• Author: Bernard of Clairvaux
• Series: Cistercian Fathers Series
• Volume: 19B
• Publisher: Cistercian Publications
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 95
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Templars; Palestine › Antiquities; Jerusalem › History--Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244
• Resource ID: LLS:BCNEWKNIGHTHOOD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:11:54Z

About Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) was a French abbot, confessor, saint, and Doctor of the Church. He is honored as a founder of the Cistercian order because of his role in popularizing the order in the twelfth century. He takes his name from a monastery he founded on June 25, 1115—soon after joining the Cistercians. He named the monastery Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux. St. Bernard spent 40 years in cloister, but wielded considerable influence in the Church during that time—working to end a schism, combat heresy, and start the Second Crusade. After his death, he was canonized by Pope Alexander III in 1174. His numerous theological writings are so timeless and powerful that they earned him the title of Doctor of the Church in 1830, and Pope Pius XII wrote an encyclical on him, Doctor Mellifluus, in 1953.