R�gine Pernoud is widely acclaimed as one of the great medievalists of our times. Among her many books are definitive works on Joan of Arc and Hildegard of Bingen, as well as The Crusaders and Those Terrible Middle Ages.
"From Walter Scott's Ivanhoe to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, the
portrayal of the Templars is as false as it is absurd. This
distortion exasperated, and even enraged, the French historian
R�gine Peroud, who has already set right many of our
misapprehensions about the Middle Ages. Now in The Templars she
rehabilitates the devout Catholic knights, exposing 'the incredible
crop of fanciful allegations attributing to the Templars every kind
of esoteric rite and belief, from the most ancient to the most
vulgar. . . .' As she rightly points out, the truth is accessible
in archives and libraries: it is not impossible to uncover the
facts. The result is an excellent, unadorned history that is a
pleasure to read."
--Piers Paul ReadAuthor, The Templars: The Dramatic History
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