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Assassins and Templars

By Steve Tibble

Assassins and Templars

By Steve Tibble

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The story of the medieval world’s most extraordinary organisations, the Assassins and the Templars   The Assassins and the Templars are two of history’s most legendary groups. One was a Shi’ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the Holy Land. Violently opposed, they had vastly different reputations, followings, and ambitions. Yet they developed strikingly similar strategies—and their intertwined stories have, oddly enough, uncanny parallels.   In this engaging account, Steve Tibble traces the history of these two groups from their origins to their ultimate destruction. He shows how, outnumbered and surrounded, they survived only by perfecting “the promise of death,” either in the form of a Templar charge or an Assassin’s dagger. Death, for themselves or their enemies, was at the core of these extraordinary organisations.   Their fanaticism changed the medieval world—and, even up to the present day, in video games and countless conspiracy theories, they have become endlessly conjoined in myth and memory.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
333
Release Date:
2025-11-04
Publication Date:
2025-09-09
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0300282125
ISBN13:
9780300282122
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
580 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
237 cm
Thickness:
37 cm
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