New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple - Hardcover

Malcolm Barber

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521420415 ISBN 13: 9780521420419

Verlag: New Publisher, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Malcolm Barber's lucid narrative separates myth from history in this full and detailed account of the Order of the Temple, from its origins, flourishing and suppression to the Templars' historical afterlife.

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The Order of the Temple, founded in 1119 to protect pilgrims around Jerusalem, developed into one of the most influential corporations in the medieval world. It has retained its hold on the modern imagination thanks to the dramatic events of the Templars' trial and abolition two hundred years later, and has been involved in historical mysteries from masonic conspiracy to the survival of the Turin shroud. Malcolm Barber's lucid narrative separates myth from history in this full and detailed account of the Order, from its origins, flourishing and suppression to the Templars' historical afterlife.

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The Order of the Temple was founded in 1119 with the limited aim of protecting pilgrims around Jerusalem. It developed into one of the most powerful corporations in the medieval world which lasted for nearly two centuries until its suppression in 1312. Despite the loss of its central archive in the sixteenth century, the Order left many records of its existence as the spearhead of crusading activity in Palestine and Syria, as the administrator of a great network of preceptories and lands in the Latin west, and as a banker and ship-owner. Because of the dramatic nature of its abolition, it has retained its grip on the imagination and consequently there has developed an entirely fictional 'after-history' in which its secret presence has been evoked to explain mysteries which range from masonic conspiracy to the survival of the Turin Shroud. This book offers a concise and up-to-date introduction to the reality and the myth of this extraordinary institution.

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• Verlag: New Publisher
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0521420415
• ISBN 13: 9780521420419
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 441