ISBN: 9780525428305 - the templars: the rise and spectacular fall of god's holy warriors (8 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read. - The Times, Book of the Year A New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger - Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem A faltering war in the middle east. A band of elite warriors determined to fight to the death to protect Christianity's holiest sites. A global financial network unaccountable to any government. A sinister plot founded on a web of lies.Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. These are the first Knights Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Over the next two hundred years, the Templars would become the most powerful religious order of the medieval world. Their legend has inspired fervent speculation ever since. In this groundbreaking narrative history, Dan Jones tells the true story of the Templars for the first time in a generation, drawing on extensive original sources to build a gripping account of these Christian holy warriors whose heroism and alleged depravity have been shrouded in myth. The Templars were protected by the pope and sworn to strict vows of celibacy. They fought the forces of Islam in hand-to-hand combat on the sun-baked hills where Jesus lived and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who vowed to drive all Christians from the lands of Islam. Experts at channeling money across borders, they established the medieval world's largest and most innovative banking network and waged private wars against anyone who threatened their interests. Then, as they faced setbacks at the hands of the ruthless Mamluk sultan Baybars and were forced to retreat to their stronghold in Cyprus, a vindictive and cash-strapped King of France set his sights on their fortune. His administrators quietly mounted a damning case against the Templars, built on deliberate lies and false testimony. On Friday October 13, 1307, hundreds of brothers were arrested, imprisoned and tortured, and the order was disbanded amid lurid accusations of sexual misconduct and heresy. They were tried by the Pope in secret proceedings and their last master was brutally tortured and burned at the stake. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state? Dan Jones goes back to the sources tobring their dramatic tale, so relevant to our own times, to life in a book that is at once authoritative and compulsively readable.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read. - The Times, Book of the Year A New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger - Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem A faltering war in the middle east. A band of elite warriors determined to fight to the death to protect Christianity's holiest sites. A global financial network unaccountable to any government. A sinister plot founded on a web of lies.Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. These are the first Knights Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Over the next two hundred years, the Templars would become the most powerful religious order of the medieval world. Their legend has inspired fervent speculation ever since. In this groundbreaking narrative history, Dan Jones tells the true story of the Templars for the first time in a generation, drawing on extensive original sources to build a gripping account of these Christian holy warriors whose heroism and alleged depravity have been shrouded in myth. The Templars were protected by the pope and sworn to strict vows of celibacy. They fought the forces of Islam in hand-to-hand combat on the sun-baked hills where Jesus lived and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who vowed to drive all Christians from the lands of Islam. Experts at channeling money across borders, they established the medieval world's largest and most innovative banking network and waged private wars against anyone who threatened their interests. Then, as they faced setbacks at the hands of the ruthless Mamluk sultan Baybars and were forced to retreat to their stronghold in Cyprus, a vindictive and cash-strapped King of France set his sights on their fortune. His administrators quietly mounted a damning case against the Templars, built on deliberate lies and false testimony. On Friday October 13, 1307, hundreds of brothers were arrested, imprisoned and tortured, and the order was disbanded amid lurid accusations of sexual misconduct and heresy. They were tried by the Pope in secret proceedings and their last master was brutally tortured and burned at the stake. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state? Dan Jones goes back to the sources tobring their dramatic tale, so relevant to our own times, to life in a book that is at once authoritative and compulsively readable.…

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Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. red & black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. as new. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xvi+428p. 9 b&w maps, one of which is double paged. 16 pages of glossy full color plates. 4 appendices. notes. bibliography. index. medieval history. religion. military history. abbasid caliphate. muslim history. history of christianity. history of the crusades. secret societies. ~ A small band of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. These are the first Knights Tcmplar: a group of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Over the next two hundred years, the Ternplars would become the most powerful religious order of the middle ages, until they were rounded up and accused of heinous crimes. But who were they really, and what actually happened? In this groundbreaking narrative hisrorv, the bestselling author of The Plantagents tells for the first time in a generation the true story of the Ternplars, drawing on extensive original sources to build a compelling account of a group of Christian holy warriors whose heroism and alleged depravity have so often been shrouded in myth. The Templars were protected by the pope and sworn to strict vows of celibacv. They fought the forces of Islam in Spain and on the sunbaked hills where Jesus lived and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who vowed to drive all Christians from the Middle East. They established the medieval world's first global bank, financed the war against Islam and challenged anyone foolish enough to threaten their interests. Then in 1307, they fell afoul of a vindictive King of France, whose lawyers built a meticulous case against them. On Friday, October 13, hundreds of brothers were arrested, imprisoned and tortured, while the order was disbanded amid lurid accusations of sexual misconduct and heresy. They were tried by the pope in secret proceedings and publicly humiliated. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state? Dan Jones goes back to the sources to tell their dramatic tale, so relevant to our own times, in a book that is at once authoritative and compulsively readable.…

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