Arguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of medieval times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, while inspiring popular culture from Indiana Jones to Dan Brown. In The Templars, author Michael Haag offers a definitive history of these loyal Christian soldiers of the Crusades—sworn to defend the Holy Land and Jerusalem, but ultimately damned and destroyed by the Pope and his church. A bestseller in the United Kingdom—the first history of the enigmatic warriors to include findings from the Chinon Parchment, the long-lost Vatican document absolving the Knights of heresy—The Templars by Michael Haag is fascinating reading.
For centuries, historians and novelists have portrayed the Knights Templar as avaricious and power-hungry villains. Indignant at the discrepancies between fact and fantasy, Pernoud draws a different portrait of these Christian warriors.
9 Proce`s, vol. 1, pp.36–9. Tying his hands in the way described caused extreme compression, a state known as compartment syndrome, see Mitchell, p. 132. See above, chap. 1, p. 18. Proce`s, vol. 1, pp.42–5. Proce`s, vol. 1, p.45.
This is a unique collection of translated sources, which in addition to documenting the origins of the Order and the circumstances of its suppression and dissolution, examines the many and varied facets of its activities during the 12th and ...
West. —. War. and. Self-Denial. In the ninth century, the religious community of Cluny in Burgundy became the driving force in the substantial reform of Benedictine monasticism, which called for a return to the fundamental values of ...
Temple. The hopes of the Jews living inPalestine foran independent nation did not end with the fall of Masada. Some sixty years later, there was a second rebellion against Roman rule led by Simeon benKoseba who was acknowledged by the ...
In this installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series Chief of Police Bruno works to connect the tangled threads of past and present.
In The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven, occult scholar and secret society member James Wasserman provides compelling evidence that the interaction of the Knights Templar and the Assassins in the Holy Land transformed the ...
Both monastic rule and military manual, the Rule is a unique document and an important historical source.
Determined to avenge the deaths of his niece and her fiancé and finish their work by finding a long-lost Dead Sea Scroll, retired Army Ranger John "Doc" Holliday, in doing so, stumbles upon a conspiracy linking the Catholic Church to an ...
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