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DescriptionThe Templar's Curse 1st Edition by Evelyn Lord (Author)  {BinanGotit} Product Details Paperback: 222 pages Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 17th 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 1405840382 ISBN-13: 978-1405840385 On the 18th March 1314, in Paris, Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and Geoffroi de Charney, preceptor of the Knights Templar in Normandy, are led to the stake. Before the pyre at their feet is set alight, Jacques de Molay speaks to the watching crowd, proclaiming a curse on those who had wrongly condemned them. A month later Pope Clement V, who had helped to condemn the Knights Templar, died. Their chief persecutor, Philip IV of France, followed him to the grave a few months later. And famine, plague and revolt were to follow. Was the Templar's curse coming home to roost? The Templar's Curse shows the Knights Templar under arrest, torture and trial, followed by penance for life. Chronicling the dissolution of the order after the trial in 1307, this fascinating new book investigates the consequences of the Templar's persecution and their mysterious legacy. Curses, cruelty, political intrigue, revenge...the true story of the Knights Templar is better than fiction! From the Back Cover On the 18th March 1314, in Paris, Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, by then an old man, and Geoffroi de Charney, preceptor of the Knights Templar in Normandy, are led to the stake. Before the pyre at their feet is set alight, Jacques de Molay speaks to the watching crowd, flinging a curse at those who had condemned them: “…God will revenge our death… All who are against us Will suffer for us…” A month later Pope Clement V, who had helped to condemn the Knights Templar, died. Their chief persecutor, Philip IV of France, followed him to the grave a few months later. Famine, plague and revolt throughout Europe were to follow. Was the Templar’s Curse coming home to roost? Top Customer Review 4.0 out of 5 stars Good resource By C. Bacon on August 28th 2013 Ms. Lord has done her research well and presents a comprehensive study of the rise and fall of the Templars. It's full of names, dates, lists and is sometimes tedious to get thru. But the information is there for future reference. Lord delved into the politics of the time and the relationship between the church and monarchy that led to the persecution of the Templars. If mainstream media coverage of this topic interests you, then this is a must read to dispel some myths the media propagates.  The burning of Jacques de Molay, from a fifteenth-century manuscript (part of the royal collection). The manuscript came into the hands of Richard of Gloucester (later Richard III) sometime between 1470 and 1483, and his autograph appears on folio 134. In the picture, the soldier shielding his face emphasises the agonising death he is witnessing. The bystanders are dressed in fifteenth-century apparel, including liripipe hats, tunics and hose similar to those seen in Memlinc’s painting The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine. As well as being naked, De Molay and de Charney are close-shaven and tonsured, as members of a fifteenth-century religious order would have been, but the illustration is not necessarily an accurate portrayal of the burning. About the Author Evelyn Lord is course director of the Master of Studies of Local and Regional History at the University Of Cambridge, and staff tutor in local history. She has published widely on local history in academic and popular journals. Her latest paper compares the way in which the Templars farmed their land in Hertfordshire with other ecclesiastical and secular landlords. Her books include Derby Past, Investigating the Twentieth Century: A Local Historian's Guide to Sources, The Knights Templar in Britain (Longman)and The Stuarts' Secret Army (Longman). Her interest in the Templars comes from leading field trips to Denny Abbey in Cambridgeshire; one of the Templars' hospitals in England.  Sharing Widget |