An edition of Los templarios: Monjes y guerreros (1995)

Alec Guinness

the authorised biography

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An edition of Los templarios: Monjes y guerreros (1995)

Alec Guinness

the authorised biography

  • 19 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

Alabados por su ascetismo, castidad y defensa a ultranza del cristianismo, denostados por los herejes, sodomitas y traidores capaces de vender Tierra Santa a los infieles musulmanes, fuente de inspiración del genio creativo de Wagner en Parsifal y Walter Scott en Ivanhoe, los caballeros templarios formaron uno de los ejércitos más temidos y poderosos de la historia.

La orden de los templarios, cuyos miembros recibían una rígida educación religiosa y militar, se formó en la primera cruzada, tras la conquista de Jerusalén, con el fin de defender de la amenaza musulmana la Ciudad Santa, el templo de Salomón y la los peregrinos que acudían a Tierra Santa. Tal formación se convirtió en el primer ejército estable uniformado en el mundo occidental y alcanzó un elevado poder financiero al desarrollar una forma casi precursora del sistema bancario internacional, cuya influencia se dejó sentir durante dos centurias hasta ser aplastada totalmente por Clemente V en 1312.

Haciendo alarde de su indudable habilidad para plasmar los acontecimientos del pasado, el historiados y novelista Piers Paul Read separa en esta emocionante crónica realidad y ficción y relata con detalle el ascenso y declive de los monjes guerreros, situándonos en un vasto contexto y social.

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
632

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First Sentence

"'My mother was a whore,' Alec told the author John Le Carre and his wife Jane, standing in the kitchen of Le Carre's house, Tregiffian, on the cliff top of the south coast of Cornwall."

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [616]-619) and index.

Published in
London, New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792/.028/092, B
Library of Congress
PN2598.G8 R43 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 632 p., [24] p. of plates :
Number of pages
632

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3363677M
Internet Archive
alecguinnessauth0000read_l9o6
ISBN 10
0743207297
LCCN
2004426148
OCLC/WorldCat
52694948
Library Thing
837668
Goodreads
1656582

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'My mother was a whore,' Alec told the author John Le Carre and his wife Jane, standing in the kitchen of Le Carre's house, Tregiffian, on the cliff top of the south coast of Cornwall.
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On maps drawn on parchment in the Middle Ages, Jerusalem is shown at the centre of the world.
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