TY - BOOK ID - 136686222 TI - Templars : the knights who made Britain PY - 2023 SN - 9780300264456 0300264453 PB - New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Templars KW - History. KW - Great Britain KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136686222 AB - The Templars, famous for their battles on Christendom's eastern front, were in fact dedicated peace-mongers at home. They influenced royal strategy and policy, created financial structures, and brokered international peace treaties--primarily to ensure that men, money, and material could be transferred more readily to the east. Charting the rise of the Order under Henry I through to its violent suppression following the fall of Acre, Tibble argues that these medieval knights were essential to the emergence of an early English state. Revealing the true legacy of the British Templars, he shows how a small group helped shape medieval Britain while simultaneously fighting in the name of the Christian Middle East. ER -