The Second Crusade

Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom

Edited by Jason T Roche Edited by Janus Moller Jensen

Book cover: The Second Crusade

Extent: 338, 338 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2015)

ISBN: 9782503523279

Price: $132.00

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This volume aims to readdress scholarly predilections for concentrating on the venture in the Holy Land 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, an


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 a general Christian offensive against the Baltic pagan Wends and the Muslims of the Iberian Peninsula and the Holy Land. His work remains extremely influential and provides the framework for the recent major works published on this extraordinary mid twelfth-century phenomenon. This volume aims to readdress scholarly predilections for concentrating on the venture in the Holy Land 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.

  • Edited by Jason T Roche
  • Edited by Janus Moller Jensen