Week 3: The Crusading Movement: Military Orders and the Second Crusade

Mon 6/7 Christian Knighthood

• Explore!: pilgrimage on El Camino Santiago
• Explore!: Jerusalem Via Crucis
• secondary: Oxford Illustrated History, Chapter 9
• primary: Cistercian Charta Charitatis
• primary: Bernard of Clairvaux, On the New Knighthood

Tue 6/8 Military Orders

• secondary: Oxford Illustrated History, Chapter 13
• primary: William of Tyre, On the Templars
• primary: Rule of the Templars
• primary: Rule and Statutes of the Teutonic Knights
• Explore!: ORB Military Orders
• Explore!: Catholic Encyclopedia on Military Orders

Wed 6/9 Calling the Second Crusade

• secondary: Riley-Smith, Crusades, Chapters 5
• primary: William of Tyre, The Fall of Edessa
• primary: Pope Eugenius III, Call to 2nd Crusade
• primary: Odo of Deuil, The Crusade of Louis VII

Thu 6/10 Hostilities in the Second Crusade

• primary: William of Tyre, The Fiasco at Damascus
• primary: Conrad II, Letters to the Abbot of Corvey
• primary: Osbernus, The Capture of Lisbon
• primary: Annales Herbipolenses, c. 1147
• primary: St. Bernard, Apology for the Second Crusade

kjolly@hawaii.edu revised 5/20/99