Phoenix Press

OLD MUSCOVYSiROUND Moscow, the country rolls gently up from the rivers winding in silvery loops across the pleasant landscape. Small lakes and patches of woods are sprinkled among the meadow-lands. Here and there, a village appears, topped by the onion dome of its church. People are walking through...

IntroductionWhat happens in civilized communities when suddenly, between a sunset and a dawn, the bulwarks of security are shattered and the barbarians break in? Often, when visiting a ruined Román villa on somé lazy summer afternoon, have I pictured to myself the night of horror, when the woods...

Preface Who were the Templars? One view of this military order comes from the novels of Sir Walter Scott. The Templar knight in Ivanhoe, Brian of Bois-Guilbert, is a demonic anti-hero, 'valiant as the bravest of his Order; but stained with their usual vices, pride, arrogance, cruelty, and...

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