Dungeon, Fire And Sword: The Knights Templar In The Crusades
by John J. Robinson /
2009 / English / EPUB
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Over the past thousand years, the bloodiest game of the
king-of-the-hill has been for supremacy on the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon. This book
recounts the stirring saga of the Knights Templar, the Christian
warrior-monks who occupied the sacred Mount in the aftermath of the
butchery of the First Crusade. Recruited to a life of poverty,
chastity and obedience intended to lead only to martyrdom on the
battlefield, they were totally dedicated to the pious paradox that
the wholesale slaughter of non-believers would earn the eternal
gratitude of the Prince of Peace.
Over the past thousand years, the bloodiest game of the
king-of-the-hill has been for supremacy on the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon. This book
recounts the stirring saga of the Knights Templar, the Christian
warrior-monks who occupied the sacred Mount in the aftermath of the
butchery of the First Crusade. Recruited to a life of poverty,
chastity and obedience intended to lead only to martyrdom on the
battlefield, they were totally dedicated to the pious paradox that
the wholesale slaughter of non-believers would earn the eternal
gratitude of the Prince of Peace.
The Templars amassed great wealth, which they used to finance their
two hundred years of war against Muslims on the desert, in the
mountains, and up the broad sweep of the Nile valley. The Templars'
reward for those two centuries of military martyrdom was to be
arrested by pope and king, tortured by the Inquisition, and finally
decreed out of existence. But their legend and legacy just would
not die.
The Templars amassed great wealth, which they used to finance their
two hundred years of war against Muslims on the desert, in the
mountains, and up the broad sweep of the Nile valley. The Templars'
reward for those two centuries of military martyrdom was to be
arrested by pope and king, tortured by the Inquisition, and finally
decreed out of existence. But their legend and legacy just would
not die.
In telling the incredible story of the Knights Templar, the
author's clear explanation of the cultural and religious
differences among the Templars' enemies and friends in the Middle
East gives fresh understanding of the people who populate this
restless region. Here are the Sunnies and the Shiites, the Kurds
and Armenians, the Arabs and Turks, who figure so prominently in
today's headlines. The similarity of their antagonisms today and
those of eight hundred years ago are often so striking as to be
eerie.
In telling the incredible story of the Knights Templar, the
author's clear explanation of the cultural and religious
differences among the Templars' enemies and friends in the Middle
East gives fresh understanding of the people who populate this
restless region. Here are the Sunnies and the Shiites, the Kurds
and Armenians, the Arabs and Turks, who figure so prominently in
today's headlines. The similarity of their antagonisms today and
those of eight hundred years ago are often so striking as to be
eerie.Dungeon, Fire & Sword
Dungeon, Fire & Sword is a brilliant work of narrative
history that can be read as an adventure story, a morality play, or
a lesson in the politics of warfare.
is a brilliant work of narrative
history that can be read as an adventure story, a morality play, or
a lesson in the politics of warfare.