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The Templars / Piers Paul Read.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating CR4743 .R4 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Templars--History.
- Templars.
- Middle Ages.
- Local Subjects:
- Middle Ages.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 350 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, c2000.
- Summary:
- "The dramatic history of the knights templar. The most powerful military order of the crusades"--Cover.
- Contents:
- Temple of Solomon
- New temple
- Rival temple
- Temple regained
- Poor fellow-soldiers of Jesus Christ
- Templars in Palestine
- Outremer
- Saladin
- Richard the Lionheart
- Enemies within
- Frederick of Hohenstaufen
- Kingdom of Acre
- Louis of France
- Fall of Acre
- Temple in exile
- Temple assaulted
- Temple destroyed
- Verdict of history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-341) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312266588
- OCLC:
- 44493295
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