Templars
Knights of Christ
ISBN:
9781586173029
Author: Regine Pernoud
Length: 157 pages
Edition: Paperback
Code: T-P
Price:: $14.95
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Foreword
by Piers Paul Read
For centuries, historians and novelists have portrayed the Knights Templar as
avaricious and power-hungry villains. Who were these medieval monastic knights,
whose exploits were the stuff of legend even in their own day? Were these elite
crusaders corrupted by their conquests, which amassed them such power and wealth
as to become the envy of kings?
Indignant at the discrepancies between the fantasies, on which “writers on history of every kind and hue have indulged themselves without restraint”, and the available evidence, Régine Pernoud draws a different portrait of these Christian warriors. From their origins as defenders of pilgrims to the Holy Land to their dramatic finish as heretics burned at the stake, Pernoud offers a concise but thorough account of the Templars’ contribution to Christendom.
“From
Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe to Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, the portrayal
of the Templars is as false as it is absurd. This distortion exasperated, and
even enraged, the French historian Régine Peroud, who has already set
right many of our misapprehensions about the Middle Ages. Now in The Templars
she rehabilitates the devout Catholic knights, exposing ‘the incredible
crop of fanciful allegations attributing to the Templars every kind of esoteric
rite and belief, from the most ancient to the most vulgar. . . .’ As she
rightly points out, the truth is accessible in archives and libraries: it is
not impossible to uncover the facts. The result is an excellent, unadorned history
that is a pleasure to read.”
—Piers Paul Read Author, The Templars: The Dramatic History
Régine Pernoud is widely acclaimed as one of the great medievalists of our times. Among her many books are definitive works on Joan of Arc and Hildegard of Bingen, as well as The Crusaders and Those Terrible Middle Ages.
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