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Tango01 | 12 Dec 2019 9:50 p.m. PST |
"The middle ages (the period from about 1000 AD to the start of the Renaissance in the 1500s) is a period where a number of myths where born: knightly chivalry, romantic love, Robin Hood, Richard "The Lionhearted", the nobility of the Crusades (slaughtering Muslims in the name of Christian love) and the warrior monks (the Teutonic Knights, the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitallar). During the time the Latin Christians occupied parts of the Middle East, the warrior monks, especially the Knights Templar played a critical role since they provided the only organized and well financed standing army. The Knights Templar took part in most of the major military campaigns during the crusades and became a local political power as well. The Templar order was founded soon after the first crusade took Jerusalem, in 1127. They were destroyed by King Philip IV of France in 1314. A whole mythology, reaching into the nineteenth century, has grown up around the warrior monks. The Teutonic Knights have been powerful figures in German mythology. They appear in Wagner's operas and were part of the strange occult beliefs of some of the Nazis. The Knights Hospitallars, who later became the Knights of Rhodes and then Knights of Malta, appear in Dashiell Hammett's book The Maltese Falcon, which was made famous by the Humphrey Bogart movie…" More here link Amicalement Armand |
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