ISBN10: 0297842676, ISBN13: 9780297842675, [publisher: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, London] Softcover The Knights of the Temple of Solomon were a military and religious order founded in Jerusalem by two French Knights after the First Crusade. Its original purpose was to protect pilgrims from infidel attack as they journeyed to the Holy Land. St Bernard of Clairvaux drew up the order's rules, which included fighting the enemies of God under vows of chastity, poverty and obedience. The Templars had no difficulty in finding recruits. The promise of salvation through a life of action and adventure attracted men who had no aptitude for the monastic life. Wearing their distinctive white tunics with a red cross over their chain mail, the Templars soon became an expert military force and a powerful, wealthy order. Their wealth would be their downfall. When the crusading forces were driven from Palestine, the Templars' main activity became banking, and their enormous landholdings and financial strength aroused hostility and envy. In 1307 Philip IV of France, in dire need of funds, charged the Templars with heresy and immorality. They were arrested, put on trial and confessions were extracted by torture. When the Templars' Grand Master and other leaders of the order retracted their forced confessions and declared their innocence and that of the order, Philip had them burned at the stake. Piers Paul Read tells their story in the context of the Middle ...

ISBN10: 0297842676, ISBN13: 9780297842675, [publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Ltd. For The Orion Publishing Group, Ltd.] Hardcover First Edition 350pp. The text is accompanied by colour & b/w illustrations. There is the slightest of strips of fading to the extreme tails of the boards where the wrapper has stood a little higher than the book. Otherwise the book is superb. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped, though there is a slight indentation mark to the spine of the wrapper. A fresh, bright wrapper. A lovely copy of this book.
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Date: 1999. Hb, xiii + 350pp, b/w and colour plates. VG+ clean copy in VG+ dj; barely used. Popular work and highly readable account of the history of the Knights Templar, the most powerful military order of the Crusades.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1999. Weidenfeld & Nicholson ISBN 0297842676 9780297842675 [GB]

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