Project Gutenberg 2014-07-05 Public domain in the USA. 798 Burnes, James 1801 1862 Burns, James Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars Second Edition Reading ease score: 47.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Paul Marshall, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars" by James Burnes is a historical account written in the early 19th century. The book delves into the origins, development, and eventual persecution of the Knights Templars, an order of warrior monks that played a significant role during the Crusades. It appears to focus on the intertwining of the Templars' chivalric ideals with their religious obligations, shedding light on their evolution from protectors of pilgrims to players in the political and military landscape of medieval Europe. At the start of the work, the author reflects on his motivation to produce this account amidst personal upheaval as he prepared to leave for India. The opening chapters discuss the early foundation of the Templars and their initial poverty, showcasing how they were formed in response to the needs of pilgrims visiting Jerusalem. Burnes outlines the growth of the Order under various rulers and the guidance of influential figures like Bernard of Clairvaux, emphasizing their development into a powerful and wealthy institution. As the narrative unfolds, hints at internal strife and external hostility set the stage for the later persecution that would challenge the very existence of this once-mighty order. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/46199/46199-h/images/cover.jpg en Templars -- History HS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - Medieval/The Middle Ages Browsing: History - Religious 282420 282395 2025-01-18T15:49:11.461772 2023-09-20T06:29:24.509798 text/html text/html 281341 2014-07-05T16:58:24 text/html 1810257 2014-07-05T17:03:13 text/html application/zip 1799599 2025-01-18T15:49:17.154732 application/epub+zip 1801383 2025-01-18T15:49:12.820755 application/epub+zip 167526 2025-01-18T15:49:12.022768 application/epub+zip 1894054 2025-01-18T15:49:20.557761 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1846020 2025-01-18T15:49:16.567752 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 236891 2022-09-21T04:41:39.787096 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 230740 2024-10-19T10:46:56.322704 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 230309 2020-06-15T20:02:43 text/plain; charset=utf-8 92191 2020-06-15T20:02:43 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 229273 2014-07-05T16:53:05 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 91897 2014-07-05T16:53:05 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 229328 2014-07-05T16:53:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 91210 2014-07-05T16:53:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22904 2025-01-18T15:49:20.697704 application/rdf+xml 33067 2025-01-18T15:49:12.117752 image/jpeg 4598 2025-01-18T15:49:12.069751 image/jpeg 2053465 2025-01-18T15:49:11.594773 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia