Aurelio PASTORI RAMOS

Original title: La Segunda Cruzada y su fracaso en De Consideratione ad Eugenium Papam de Bernardo de Claraval

Published in The Middle Ages and the Crusades

Keywords: Bernard of Clairvaux, Crusade, Cîteaux, Eugene III.

Regarding the history of the Crusades, the abbot of Clairvaux is often cited as the preacher of the second Crusade. Less studied however is the analysis of the reasons of the failure of this Crusade, written by himself.