The Knights Templar in Britain

The Knights Templar, founded early in the twelfth century, swiftly and stealithly rose to be the most powerful military order of the Middle Ages. While their campaigns in the Middle East and travels across Europe are well known, their huge influence across the British Isles is virtually uncharted. The Knights Templar in Britain reveals just who became knights, what kind of rituals sustained them, where the power bases were and how their tentacles spread throughout the political and economic worlds of Britain before their inquisitorial defeat two hundred years later. Evelyn Lord is at the Cambridge University.