What makes a war "holy," and who decides that it is? "God of Battles" examines the origins of holy war, and how it affects the modern world. Peter Partner shows how the ideal of the crusade, "God's War," came to permeate medieval Christendom, and how it influenced later Western societies, especially[...]
This widely praised study of the rise and fall of the Knights Templar examines the history of the Templars and the beliefs that have developed around them. From the tangled traditions of occultism and chivalry, to the intrigue of political conspiracy, governmental greed and papal corruption, the aut[...]