Assassins and Templars : A Battle in Myth and Blood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tibble, Steve.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Assassins (Ismailites).

Military religious orders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The story of the medieval world's most extraordinary organisations, the Assassins and the Templars The Assassins and the Templars are two of history's most legendary groups.One was a Shi'ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the Holy Land.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Plates and Maps

1 The Promise of Death

2 Assassins: Birth of a Legend

3 A Beginning and a Blueprint: Persia (10901100)

4 Assassins and Syria: In Search of a Home (11001113)

5 Assault on Shaizar: Mums Army (1114)

6 Assassins: A State within a State (11151126)

7 Templars: The Ideology of Love and Death (10951129)

8 Templars: A Living Sacrifice (11191129)

9 So It Begins: The Strangest Partnership (11261130)

10 Assassins: Home Sweet Home (11301162)

11 Templars: The Little Castle on the Prairie (11301169)

12 Fear and Loathing in Lebanon (11301162)

13 Sinan: The Old Man of the Mountain (11621170)

14 Ambushes and Ambassadors (11701174)

15 Saladin Must Die: Assassins Take the Lead (11751176)

16 Saladin Must Die: The Templars Turn (11771191)

17 The Death of Heroes (11921193)

18 Contest for the Holy Land (11941248)

19 Egypt, Saints and Sinners (12481254)

20 Assassins: Holocaust and horror (12551291)

21 Templars: Death in the East (12551291)

22 Afterlife: From Intimidation to Entertainment

23 Ending and Beginning

Acknowledgements

Notes

References and Further Reading

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-300-28615-5

OCLC:

1570205366