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The Knights Templar - From Catholic Crusaders to Conspiring Criminals (Paperback)
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The Knights Templar - From Catholic Crusaders to Conspiring Criminals (Paperback)
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The Templars, the Knights Hospitallers, the Teutonic Knights - the
chivalric orders founded during the Crusades evoke romantic images
of warrior monks who were fierce but spiritual, chaste and pious
yet battle-ready. But what were they really like? How did their
organisations form, rise and decline? And how much of what we think
about them is myth? The Knights Templar tells the stories of the
major and minor military orders from the 11th century to - in the
case of the surviving orders - the present day. Organised
chronologically, the book follows the fates of orders, from the
foundation of the Knights of St Peter in 1053 to the major
crusading era in the Holy Land in the 12th and 13th centuries, from
the Teutonic Knights in the Baltic to the Reconquista in Iberia and
on to the Hospitallers' later ventures in the Mediterranean and
even in the Caribbean. Full of surprising details, the book not
only explores how the military and religious aspects of the orders
were reconciled, but also looks more broadly at the orders' work,
from the Templars' role in the development of modern banking to
hospital, castle and cathedral building, from the Teutonic Knights'
treatment of non-believers to the Hospitallers' battles against
Barbary pirates. Illustrated with 180 colour and black-&-white
photographs, artworks and maps, The Knights Templar is a
fascinating history of about some of Europe's most often
misunderstood organisations.
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