Volume 30, Number 18 · November 24, 1983
The Hunter and the Haunted
By R.C. Smail
The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and their Myth
by Peter Partner
Oxford University Press, 209 pp., $29.50
Dr. Partner's short book is divided into two equal parts, of which the first is easier to read and review than the second. It begins by surveying the history of the Knights Templar from their foundation in the early twelfth century to their brutal suppression in the early fourteenth. The familiar story is well told, and subjected to much perceptive comment. It reminds us that the author is a distinguished historian whose published works on the late medieval papacy are highly regarded by academic colleagues and by a wider circle of students.
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