The Templars: Knights of Christ

by Régine Pernoud

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586173022
• ISBN13: 9781586173029
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 8.2"