Crusade of Fire
Mystical Tales of the Knights Templar
Introduction
Other than King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, perhaps no other chivalric
body in the world has inspired more intense or more long-lasting fascination
than the Poor Fellow Soldiers of the Temple of Christ of Jerusalem, better known
as the Knights Templar. Since this is the third anthology in this series about
the Knights, any detailed account of their real-world history might rightly be
regarded as unnecessary padding, but a brief summary is certainly in order for
the benefit of readers as yet unacquainted with the Order.
They arose in the early twelfth century, in the immediate aftermath of the First
Crusade and the formation of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem-warrior monks,
melding the hitherto disparate concepts of chivalry and monasticism. Within less
than twenty years, they would become the most formidable and feared fighting
machine in all of Christendom. While their initial purpose was to protect the
pilgrim roads of the Holy Land, now that travel was again possible in the land
where Jesus once walked, they soon began to function as a cr ... read full excerpt from: Crusade of Fire: Mystical Tales of the Knights Templar ebook
