Overview
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, pious yet battle ready. But what were they really like? How did their organizations form, rise, and decline? And how much of what we believe about them is myth? The Knights Templar tells the stories of the major and minor military orders from the eleventh century toāin the case of the surviving ordersāthe present day. Organized chronologically, it 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 twelfth and thirteenth centuries, from the Teutonic Knights in the Baltic to the Reconquista in Iberia and on to the Hospitallersā 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 ordersā work, from the Templarsā role in the development of modern banking to hospital, castle, and cathedral building, to the Teutonic Knightsā treatment of nonbelievers, to the Hospitallersā battles against Barbary pirates.
This book title, The Knights Templar (From Catholic Crusaders to Conspiring Criminals), ISBN: 9781782747574, by Michael Kerrigan, Michael Kerrigan, published by Amber Books (August 6, 2019) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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