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Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar. ‘Exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history’ TLS‘Jones is certainly an entertainer, but also a fine historian who knows how to render serious scholarship into accessible prose’ The Times‘Another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist’ Observer‘When it comes to rip-roaring medieval narratives, Jones has few peers, and in the Templars he finds the perfect subject’ Sunday TimesThe Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful – and most secretive – of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era.Their story – encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealth and influence followed by a bloody and humiliating fall – has left a comet’s tail of mystery that continues to fascinate and inspire historians, novelists and conspiracy theorists.
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The Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful – and most secretive – of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era. Their story – encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealth and influence followed by a bloody and humiliating fall – has left a comet’s tail of mystery that continues to fascinate and inspire historians, novelists, and conspiracy theorists.
Weight | 0.386 kg |
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Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 3.3 cm |
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Cover | Paperback |
Pages | xv, 494 , 16 unnumbered of plates |
Language | English |
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Dewey | 271.7913 (edition:23) |
Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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