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The Templars were members of a monastic order established in 1099 after the success of the First Crusade. Enjoying the support of both the Church and the laity and vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, these 'fighting monks' were the vital defenders of the holy places of the Latin States in Palestine and Syria. A unique collection of translated sources documenting the origins of the Order and the circumstances of its suppression and dissolution. Offers a valuable insight into the lives of those who joined, supported, and attacked this most fascinating and enigmatic of institutions. Examines the many and varied facets of the Order's activities during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. There is no other book of translated sources devoted in its entirety to the Templars.

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071905110X
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Manchester University Press
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October 11, 2002
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"The book comprises a very substantial collection of translated material illustrative of its history. The introduction is lucid and beautifully written, and the collection will be an asset for third-year courses at universities." --Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith, Cambridge University

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The Templars were members of a monastic order established in 1099 after the success of the First Crusade. Enjoying the support of both the Church and the laity and vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, these fighting monks were the vital defenders o. A unique collection of translated sources documenting the origins of the Order and the circumstances of its suppression and dissolution. Offers a valuable insight into the lives of those who joined, supported, and attacked this most fascinating and enigmatic of institutions. Examines the many and varied facets of the Order's activities during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. There is no other book of translated sources devoted in its entirety to the Templars.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manchester University Press; UK ed. edition (October 11, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 071905110X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0719051104
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.48 x 1.12 x 8.56 inches

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John L. Leland

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 9, 2018

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This is a major collection of sources (in modern English translation) about the original, historical Knights Templar from their foundation about 1120 to their official dissolution in the early 1300s. It contains complete texts of the papal bulls granting privileges to the order, extracts from St. Bernard's "New Knighthood" in praise of the order, extracts from the rule of the order, extracts from chroniclers both favorable and unfavorable to the order, charters granting lands and other property to the order, surveys of Templar property conducted by the Templars themselves and by the French government after it seized Templar property in France, the Templar master Jacques de Molay's plans for the order's part in a future crusade (aubmitted just before the suppression of the order), the French royal orders for seizure of the Templars and their property in France, a few select results of interrogations of arrested Templars (both those who confessed to the hostile charges and those who did not), the pope's attempts to intervene in the procedures against the Templars, Peter of Bologna's formal defense of the Templars,. the pope's final decrees suppressing the Templars and even some of the financial negotiations between the Hospitallers (who were supposed to receive the Templars' property) and the French financial administration. It stops at that point and does not include anything about the alleged later survival of the Templars in Scotland, their alleged voyages to America, their alleged preservation of the lineage of Christ, their alleged links to various masonic or quasi-masonic orders etc. etc. As a professional medievalist, I would say that these matters are not included for the simple reason that there is no reliable historical evidence relating to them, but others may be disappointed. Even for me, some of the property lists in this collection make dry reading, but I would say it includes virtually everything anyone who is not a professional scholar fluent in medieval Latin and French needs to know about the historical evidence for the Templars, and for those who want to know more, it does list additional references.

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Stefano Nikolaou

A Very Select Collection of Sources

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Everybody wants to 'own' the Templars. New Agers see them as a mystical sect with esoteric knowledge. Conspiracy theorists come up with all sorts of crazy claims. Liberals are embarrassed by their fanaticism. Right wing Christians even see them as as 'Christian Warriors' who knew how to stand up to militant Islam. I decided to check out this sourcebook to see what the primary sources had to say.

The sourcebook is divided into easy sections- the foundation of the order, warfare and politics, religious and charitable functions, human and material resources, attitudes towards the Templars and, of course, the trial. I found this division to be really convenient. In all the sourcebook translates 79 sources. It shows the development of the Templars from a small group to an international organisation. My pick is source 63, the Poem of Ricaut Bonomel from 1265. I also found the various rules to be interesting.

The biggest complaint is the lack of non Latin/ French sources. The only non Western sources is a brief extract from Michael the Syrian on the origins of the Templars. Where are the Muslim sources? Where are the Greek sources? Where are the sources from the native Christians of the Middle East? You can hardly write on the attitudes to the Templars without these!

I was also disappointed that none of the sources referred to the 'War of Saint Sabas' fought between Venice and Genoa between 1256 to 1270 over territory in Tyre. The Templars sided with Venice and the Hospitallers sided with Genoa. This war put to rest the myth of chivalry surroundings the Templars. They were quite happy to fight their fellow Christians and quite happy to employ Muslim mercenaries against their enemies. Sources for this conflict are hard to find and I thought this sourcebook might help but, alas, no!

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Canaan K.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2019

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Saved my neck when I came up lacking primary documents for a paper I wrote on the Templars in a seminar on the Crusades this past semester.

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Stephen Bloom

Rich source of Historic Documents

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2012

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Malcolm Barber is the expert on the real history of the Knights Templar. This book gathers together in one place a rich collection of translated documents relating to the Templars. Barber introduces the book with his usual lucidity. It is a key source in English for those interested in understanding the real nature of the Knights Templar.

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Draypoker

Real history

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 10, 2010

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If one googles "Templars" one finds a large number of articles on the web about "the Knights of the Temple of Solomon of Jerusalem". To the professional historian most of these articles are distressingly inaccurate and lacking in hard facts about this organisation.

This book is a useful correction to the fantasies. It is a collection of translations of original French and Latin documents about the Templars. Many of them were written by officials of the organisation.

It is useful for students of history to read these documents, which tell us what is actually known about the Templars, as opposed to the fantasies that so many authors feel happy to write, presumably without having read them.

For example, some of the fantasists feel quite happy to state that the Templars were a subversive, non-Catholic organisation with secret beliefs. The actual documents provide no evidence at all that they believed anything other than the ordinary Catholic theology, nor that their ceremonies were anything other than the customary rites of the Church.

Their real history is quite spectacular enough without making them the "fathers" of Freemasonry or other weird religions, something for which there isn't any evidence. In the case of Freemasonry there is nothing to connect the Templars after their suppression in 1312 to the emergence of Masons in the 17th century - 300 years of absence of evidence.

There are 85 pages on the trial of the Templars at the instigation of the King of France, Philip the fourth. Interestingly, the documents about their Trial, when they were suppressed because the French king wanted their money, remind the reader of the accusations made during the Show Trials during Stalin's Terror in the 1930s. The accusations against them are obviously entirely fabricated. No modern jury could possibly find them guilty, there being no evidence other than confessions forced from the accused by torture.

Did the king, or anyone else seriously think they were "heretics"? The documents presented at their trial do not provide hard evidence. A possible speculation about them might be that their experience of living in the Middle East among people of different religions and cultures may actually have made them more tolerant. This is hinted at by the well-known document (not in this book) of the Muslim physician Osama Ibn Munqidh who describes a Templar ordering a Christian fanatic not to impede a Muslim wanting to pray in the Mosque which the Templars were using as their headquarters in Jerusalem. If they had learned tolerance - or ordinary human decency - this in itself may have made them suspect in the fanatical and ignorant west where people hated the Muslims without ever having met any. (That's very modern.) Thus there was an organisation with great wealth partly from generous donations and partly from successful business, practicing honest banking (if only we had something like that today) and staffed by people with knowledge of the real world. Religious fanatics were bound to hate it.

Far from being the holders of secret philosophies these monkish-knights were hard-headed practical men who may well have refounded the European economy simply by conveying produce under armed guard, buying in one area and selling in another for a higher price. What they should be famous for is the revival of the European economy, making possible the end of feudalism by giving rulers something to tax - trading and urban life.

The Editor of these documents is a world renowned specialist in Medieval history, Malcolm Barber.

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