Beschreibung:
The Knights Templar, a secret society whose rites and rituals are shrouded in mystery, are a familiar part of the Crusades story. Yet until now, very little has been known of their existence in Britain. Opening with their stunning rise to power in the twelfth century, Lord charts the spread and range of the political and economic worlds of Britain they inhabited, until their inquisitorial defeat two hundred years later. Lord s groundbreaking focus on Britain reveals new sites, sources and realms of the Templars.
1.Knights Templar: Knightly Monks or Monkish Knights 2. The Templars in the British Isles: London and Its Suburbs 3. The Templars and the Countryside: Eastern England 4. The Templars in the Countryside: Northeastern England 5. The Templars in the Countryside: Midlands, Chiltern and Oxfordshire 6. The Templars in the Countryside: Welsh Marshes, Wales, West and Southern England 7. The Knights Templar in Ireland and Scotland 8. Templars and the Plantagenets 9. Templars as Bankers 10. Trial and Fall of the Templars 11. Templars in Fact and Fiction: Debates, Myths and Legends