ABSTRACT
The principal architect of the new crusade was abbot Suger, whose biographer William of St Denis wrote that:
5 Michel-Jean-Joseph Brial, ‘Mémoire sur la véritable époque d’une assemblée tenue à Chartres relativement à la croisade de Louis-le-Jeune’, Histoire et mémoires de l’Institut royal de France. Classe d’histoire et de littérature ancienne 4 (1818), 508-29; Achille Luchaire, ‘Sur la chronologie des documents et des faits relatifs à l’histoire de Louis VII pendant l’année 1150’, Annales de la Faculté des lettres de Bordeaux 4 (1882), 298-304; Bernhardi, Konrad (n. 2), 819-21; Richard Hirsch, Studien zur Geschichte König Ludwigs VII. von Frankreich (1119-1160) (Leipzig 1892), 69-73; Vacandard, Bernard (n. 2), II, 42732; Otto Cartellieri, Abt Suger von Saint-Denis 1081-1151 (Historische Studien 11; Berlin 1898, repr. 1965), 65-7 (with a useful list of relevant documents, cited here by number, on 160-2); Karl Joseph Hefele, Histoire des conciles, ed. Henri Leclercq , V.1 (Paris 1912), 8434; Eberhard Pfeiffer, ‘Die Stellung des hl. Bernhard zur Kreuzzugsbewegung nach seinen Schriften’, Cistercienser-Chronik 46 (1934), 305-7; 47 (1935), 149; Gleber, Eugen III. (n. 2), 127-36; Virginia Berry, ‘Peter the Venerable and the Crusades’, in Petrus Venerabilis 1156-1956: Studies and Texts Commemorating the Eighth Centenary of his Death, ed. Giles Constable, James Kritzeck (Studia Anselmiana 40; Rome 1956), 159-62; Brenda Bolton, ‘The Cistercians and the Aftermath of the Second Crusade’, in The Second Crusade, ed. Gervers (n. 1), 131-40; Jonathan Phillips, Defenders of the Holy Land: Relations between the Latin East and the West, 1119-1187 (Oxford 1996), 100-18. No mention of the project is found in many standard works on the crusades, but there are brief references in Bernhard Kugler, Geschichte der Kreuzzüge (Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellung II, 5; Berlin 1880), 154; Mayer, Crusades (n. 2), 104, who described the ‘new crusade’ as ‘genuine’ and ‘intended to make amends for 1148’.
