This book is an essential exploration into the history of a
legendary group of Crusaders, which are prominently featured in Dan
Brown's recent best seller, The Da Vinci Code. The Knights Templar
rose from humble beginnings to become the most powerful military
religious order of the Middle Ages. Formed to protect pilgrims in
the Holy Land, they participated in the Crusades and rapidly gained
wealth, lands, and influence. Seemingly untouchable for nearly two
centuries, they fell from grace spectacularly after the loss of the
Holy Land. In the ensuing centuries the Templars have exerted a
unique influence over European history; orthodox historians see
them as nothing more than soldier-monks whose arrogance was their
ultimate undoing, while others see them as occultists of the first
order. With clarity and ease, Martin navigates between the orthodox
and the speculative, the historical and the myth, to bring alive
the story of the Templars. Like those other legends of the Middle
Ages--the characters of the Arthurian tales--The Knights Templar
holds captive the imagination of all those intrigued by conspiracy
and how history and myth intertwine to become the stuff of legend.
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