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The Templars : the history and the myth
The first history of the legendary Templar knights since the Vatican momentously released the records of their trial and exoneration. Haag investigates their origins and history, the enduring myths, and the soaring architecture of an enigmatic order long shrouded in mystery and controversy.
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Temperance And Racism
One hundred twenty years ago, the Independent Order of Good Templars was the world's largest, most militant, and most evangelical organization hostile to alcoholic drink. Standing in the forefront of the international temperance movement, it was recognized worldwide as a potent social and moral force.
Temperance and Racismrestores the Templars, now an almost forgotten footnote in American and British social history, to a position of prominence within the temperance movement. The group's ideology of universal membership made it unique among fraternal organizations in the late nineteenth century and led to pioneering efforts on behalf of equal rights for women.
Its policy toward African Americans was more ambiguous. Though a great many white Templars, especially those in Great Britain, rejected the extreme racism prevalent in the late nineteenth century, members in the American South did not. The decision to allow state lodges to rule on their membership eligibility led to the great schism of 1876-87. The break was mended only after British leaders compromised their ideals of universal brotherhood and sisterhood for the sake of the organization's international unity. Drawing on previously unused primary sources, David Fahey reveals much about racial attitudes and behavior in the late nineteenth century on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, and on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Assassin's creed, Reflections
Otso Berg faces a dilemma; one only the past can solve. Using Animus technology to tread the past as some of the Assassin Brotherhood's bravest and brightest, the Master Templar hopes to tip the balance against his adversaries. For is there any better way to learn from one's enemy than to become him?
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Templars and Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land
The Templars and the Hospitallers were the two earliest and most
famous of the major Military Orders of the Roman Catholic Church
from the early twelfth to the middle of the thirteenth century. In
this book, Jonathan Riley-Smith attends to the Templars' and
Hospitallers' primary role as religious orders, not as military
phenomena or economic powerhouses. In a prologue, four chapters,
and an epilogue, Riley-Smith discusses the origins of the orders in
dedication to the protection of pilgrims to the Holy Land
(Templars) and to the care of the poor and the sick among them
(Hospitallers). He examines their traditions and early history, the
organization of their communities, modes of governance, and, in the
fourth chapter, important differences between the orders and a
brief account of their respective fates in the wake of the
Crusades. The Templars were eventually persecuted by the Church and
the order suppressed. Riley-Smith speculates that the violent end
of the order was caused both by jealousy of its wealth and by
internal problems of governance that left it vulnerable to
accusations of conducting blasphemous rites. The Hospitallers
survived in one form or another to the present day; vestiges of the
original order inform the contemporary Knights of Malta.
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Templar General Chapters
This paper seeks to examine various aspects of Templar general chapters and also to draw some comparisons with the general chapters of other orders. Origins, frequency, length, and location are discussed, together with the size and composition of the chapter. The functions of chapters, including legislation, appointments to leading offices, alienation of property, and justice, are considered. The question of capitular seals is also investigated. For many topics the surviving evidence is limited, but some claims that have been made about Templar general chapters are challenged. The evidence about alleged early chapters is not convincing. It seems that chapters were expected to be held annually and not at intervals of five years. There is evidence to show that chapters were occasionally held in western Europe as well as at the Order’s headquarters and other places in the East. Lastly, the assertion that Hospitaller general chapters were more representative than those of the Temple is questioned.
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The Knights Templar
Over seven hundred years after the pope dissolved their Order, the Templars remain as controversial as ever. How could warriors also be monks? What did they really believe in? Why did they fail to protect the Holy Land? What impact did they have on society? Why were they dissolved–-were they really heretics? Based on the medieval evidence and the latest research by modern scholars, this book surveys some key areas of the Templars' history. It argues that despite their wide landholdings and apparent power the Templars‘ influence depended on the patronage of popes and kings, and that they were destroyed when their most powerful patron had more to gain than lose from their dissolution.
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