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IN SEARCH OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR: A Guide to the Sites in Britain

A beautifully produced and illustrated history of the Knights Templar in Britain, and the sites they left behind after their violent destruction in the 1300s. Author Simon Brighton also weaves in the wider story of the Templars as a European power and of their rise and dramatic fall.

The phenomenal success of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ has made the story of the Knights Templars a hot topic, and this beautifully produced and illustrated book tells the truth behind the fiction. The Templars were an elite Europe-wide brotherhood that combined military and religious roles to become one of the wealthiest and most influential orders of the medieval world. Simon Brighton’s book weaves the wider Templar story into an account of its activities and sites in Britain, illustrating it with his own photographs. Bankers, landowners, merchants, industrialists and monks - the Templars were all these and warriors too. But their worldly wealth and success was their undoing - leading to their destruction in the 1300s at the hands of an envious Papacy, aided and abetted by secular rulers eager to get their hands on the Templars’ property - and power. The destruction was ruthless - and complete, but modern times have seen a revival of interest in this mysterious order. Brighton’s meticulous book tells us all we need to know - and more - about the Knights Templar.

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Product Code:	10960
Author:	Simon Brightton
Format:	255pp, b/w and colour photographs, hb. Published Price £20
Shipping Time:	This item is usually dispatched Next Day
Retail Price:	~~£20.00~~
Our Price:	£8.95 save 55% January sale price: £7.16