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The Murdered Magicians,
This review is from: The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and Their Myth (Hardcover)
The ruthless dissolution of the Knights Templars was only the beginning of a new and strange chapter in their history. In due course thay became the focus of numerous beliefs based on their supposed occult powers, and by the eighteenth century the influence of the Templar myth ws felt not only in the fantasies of occultists but even in the Gothic novel, with its frequent tales of monastic impropriety.
In this widely-praised study Dr. Partner, as well as providing a succinct account of the rise and fall of the Templars, examines the fabrications and illusions about the history of the Order, from the Renaissance magicians, to varieties of Templarism in our own time, and shows how a medieval act of political injustice grew into a modern fantasy. --- from book's dustjacket |
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The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and Their Myth by Peter Partner (Paperback - 1987)
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