Edward Burman

The Templars: Knights of God

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The author tells of the extraordinary organization of warrior-monks who came to power during the Crusades: their wealth and power, the reasons for their downfall, and their passage into myth and legend.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Original
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 134mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9780892812219
• ISBN-10: 0892812214
• Artikelnr.: 21990781

Autorenporträt

Edward Burman has a degree in philosophy from the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Inquisition.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
1 Genesis
2 The Templar Ideology I
3 The Templar Ideology II
4 Knights Militant
5 International Financiers
6 Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem
7 Templars in the Holy Land
8 Criticism and Decline
9 The Recovery of Jerusalem and Proposed Union
10 Suppression
Afterword
References
Select Bibliography
Index