Orden tamplierov. Istoriia bratstva rytsarei Khrama - Eddison Charl'z

The book of Charles G. Addison - scholar, connoisseur of the history of the Order - is dedicated to the legendary brotherhood of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem. The author tells about the birth of the most powerful military religious order of that time, features of the statute, hierarchy and possessions of the Templars in the East and West. Addison reports on the exploits of the Templars in the name of the protection of the Holy Land, the participation of the Knights of the Temple in the military campaigns of Richard the Lionheart and other Christian kings, tells the story of the confrontation with Saladin, the siege of Jerusalem and the tragic loss of Akry, the last stronghold of the Templars in the Holy Land, and also illuminates the process of the Templars in England. In the last chapters of his book, Charles Addison, esq. legal scholars who restored a number of customs of the Knights of the Temple and revived the traditions of the old...