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The Templars - The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Paperback)
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The Templars - The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Paperback)
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An instant New York Times bestseller, from the author of Crusaders,
that finally tells the real story of the Knights Templar-"Seldom
does one find serious scholarship so easy to read." (The Times,
Book of the Year) A faltering war in the middle east. A band of
elite warriors determined to fight to the death to protect
Christianity's holiest sites. A global financial network
unaccountable to any government. A sinister plot founded on a web
of lies... In 1119, a small band of knights seeking a purpose in
the violent aftermath of the First Crusade set up a new religious
order in Jerusalem, which was now in Christian hands. These were
the first Knights Templar, elite warriors who swore vows of poverty
and chastity and promised to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy
Land. Over the next 200 years, the Templars would become the most
powerful network of the medieval world, speerheading the crusades,
pionerring new forms of finance and warfare and deciding the fate
of kings. Then, on October 13, 1307, hundreds of brothers were
arrested, imprisoned and tortured and the order was disbanded among
lurid accusations of sexual misconduct and heresy. But were they
heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state? Dan Jones
goes back to the sources to bring their dramatic tale, so relevant
to our own times, to life in a book that is at once authoritative
and compulsively readable.
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