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The Unaccountable Order: How the Knights Templar Outgrew the Medieval World

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The order Philip IV came for on 13 October 1307 was not a band of mystics but the closest thing medieval Europe had to a multinational corporation: papally exempt, holding commanderies from England to Cyprus and the French crown's own treasury in its Paris house. This book traces how that institution was built, and why the independence — not the charges — was what killed it.

What you get

• Introduction, ten chapters, a full chronology and a verified reading list
• A dedicated chapter on the trials outside France, where torture was largely absent and confessions never followed
• A chapter on what historians still argue about, from Philip IV's motives to the disputed Chinon Parchment
• A final chapter on Iberia, where Aragon and Portugal kept the Temple's castles and brothers in the open
• A4 and US Letter PDFs, plus a mobile edition and an EPUB

For: Readers who want the Templars as an institution rather than a mystery.

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