The Knights Templars: God's Warriors, the Devil's Bankers.(Book Review)

From: The Historian | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Madden, Thomas F. | Copyright information

The Knights Templars: God's Warriors, the Devil's Bankers. By Frank Sanello. (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003. Pp. vii, 304. $25.95.)

The Knights Templar will always remain a popular subject. A medieval military order, the Templars defended the Holy Land for centuries only to be suppressed in 1312. The secretive nature of the order, coupled with the controversy and scandal of its demise, has made it a focal point for legend ever since. Innumerable books have be...

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