The Templars. A Christian knighthood in the Middle Ages.
Points| N° d'inventaire | 8102 |
| Format | 10 x 17 |
| Détails | 720 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782757844410 |
The Order of the Temple is the first example of an original creation of Western medieval Christianity: the religious-military order. In the 12th century, the new knight of Christ took the vows of a monk, lived by a rule, but acted within the century. For his faith, he fought, killed, and died. Created to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the order extended its mission to the defense of the Latin states of the East, then to Spain during the Reconquista. Its accusation in 1307 by the French king Philip the Fair was followed by an unfair trial and its suppression in 1312. The Order of the Temple became the scapegoat for a conflict beyond its control, exacerbated in France by the personality of the king and his advisors: the rivalry between a spiritual power on the defensive and the modern state that had been asserting itself in the West since the mid-13th century.
The Order of the Temple is the first example of an original creation of Western medieval Christianity: the religious-military order. In the 12th century, the new knight of Christ took the vows of a monk, lived by a rule, but acted within the century. For his faith, he fought, killed, and died. Created to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the order extended its mission to the defense of the Latin states of the East, then to Spain during the Reconquista. Its accusation in 1307 by the French king Philip the Fair was followed by an unfair trial and its suppression in 1312. The Order of the Temple became the scapegoat for a conflict beyond its control, exacerbated in France by the personality of the king and his advisors: the rivalry between a spiritual power on the defensive and the modern state that had been asserting itself in the West since the mid-13th century.