The Second Crusade: Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom

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A seminal article published by Giles Constable in 1953 focused on the genesis and expansion in scope of the Second Crusade with particular attention to what has become known as the Syrian campaign. His central thesis maintained that by the spring of 1147 the Church “viewed and planned” the Second Crusade as a general Christian offensive against and the Muslims of Syria and the Iberian Peninsula and the pagan Wends of the southern Baltic lands. Constable's work remains extremely influential and provides the framework for the recent major works published on this extraordinary twelfth-century phenomenon. This volume aims to readdress scholarly predilections for concentrating on the venture in the Near East and for narrowly focusing on the accepted targets of the crusade. It aims instead to place established, contentious, and new events and concepts associated with the enterprise in a wider ideological, chronological, geopolitical, and geographical context. Jason T. Roche is a Lecturer in Medieval History at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research interests cover the history of the crusades and the Latin East and the topography of medieval Anatolia and the Near East. Janus Møller Jensen is head of department at Nyborg Castle, Museums of Eastern Funen, Denmark. His main research interests cover the history and historiography of the Crusades and Scandinavian medieval history. Front Matter ("Table of Contents", "Preface", "Contributors to the Volume", "List of Maps", "Abbreviations"), p. i Free Access Introduction The Second Crusade: Main Debates and New Horizons, p. 1 Jason T. Roche https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.105184 Part I: The Second Crusade and Holy War The True Year of Jubilee: Bernard of Clairvaux on Crusade and Indulgences, p. 35 Ane L. Bysted https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.105185 Remembering Kings in Jerusalem: The Historia Nicaena vel Antiochena and Royal Identity around the Time of the Second Crusade, p. 51 Deborah Gerish https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.105186 A Muslim Response to the Second Crusade: Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus as Propagandist of Jihad, p. 91 Suleiman A. Mourad, James E. Lindsay https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.105187 Part II: Peripheral Impact and the March towards the Holy Land Poland and the Second Crusade, p. 115 Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.105188 The Second Crusade and the Significance of Crusading in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic Region, p. 155 Janus Møller Jensen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.105189 King Conrad III in the Byzantine Empire: A Foil for Native Imperial Virtue, p. 183 Jason T. Roche https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.105190 Part III: Expanding the Frontiers Reconquest and the Second Crusade in Eastern Iberia: The Christian Expansion in the Lower Ebro Valley, p. 219 Luis García-Guijarro https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.105191 The Capture of Lisbon: Premeditated or Opportunistic?, p. 257 Susan B. Edgington https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.105192 ‘Why Have You Come with Weapons Drawn?’ The Leaders of the Wendish Campaign of 1147, p. 273 Jay T. Lees https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.105193 The ‘First Swedish Crusade’ against the Finns: A Part of the Second Crusade?, p. 303 John H. Lind https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.5.105194 Maps, p. 323 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.OUTREMER-EB.4.00002 Back Matter ("Index"), p. 329