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The Secret Seat of the Knights Templar
- pjc50 7y agoThe Knights Templar have a greater mystique since they were suppressed, and revived only by fiction writers from Umberto Eco to Dan Brown; but to me the Knights Hospitaller are in some ways more impressive for managing to hang on to their state-without-a-country status for so long as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. They even had a substantial air force at one point as part of a scheme to circumvent treaty restrictions on Italy.
- nl 7y agoYes! I highly recommend Roger Crowley's Empire of the Sea to anyone who wants to read about Malta in the 1500s when it was a key in the battle for the Mediterranean between the Ottomans and various European forces in various alliances (or not) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3418555-empires-of-the-sea https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3418555-empires-of-the-s...
- samstave 7y agoDoes roger have any relation to aleister crowley?
- shams93 7y agoNo
- sarkisv 7y agoNow I'm confused who Ozzy is singing about in the song titled "Mr Crowley" :(
- crowleythrow 7y agoCome on guys, it's not an uncommon name by any stretch of the imagination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowley_(surname) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowley_(surname)
- samstave 7y agoMay not be an "uncommon surname" -- but there is ONE prominent very significant in history crowley! Who the fuck do you think we are thinking about in this context. Frank Crowley the farmer?
- jsmith99 7y agoNo, he probably meant the one from Good Omens /s
- haasted 7y agoI’m curious why you felt it necessary to create a throwaway for delivering that piece of information. :)
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoMan, you really have to listen to those lyrics more carefully. "Oh Mr Crowley did you talk to the dead" ... "You fooled all the people with magic. Waiting on Satan's call" I suspect that ain't the historian. ;)
- squeezingswirls 7y agoIf you like historical fiction 'The Religion' by Tim Willocks is amazing. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918095.The_Religion https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918095.The_Religion
- fredley 7y agoVery strong Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars [0] nostalgia reading this. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Sword:_The_Shadow_of_the_Templars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Sword:_The_Shadow_of_th...
- williesleg 7y agoNice hacker news story! Love me some global warming, religion, how to fix the world, white bad brown good, etc! Bravo!
- swombat 7y agoAnd if you want to read more about how the curse unfolded, have a lot of time to spare and can either read French or get your hands on a suitable translation, Maurice Druon's "Les Rois Maudits" is the epic multi-volume tale of a medieval dynasty's decline that you'll want to read.
- seren 7y agoWhich is one of the influence of G.R.R Martin for A Song of Ice and Fire (GoT). Not for the dragon part, but rather the constant feuds and betrayals between noble families. What is interesting is that even if is fiction, most of the main characters have existed and are more or less historically accurate.
- squeezingswirls 7y agoAlso the 1970's TV series is one of the best series of all times imo
- Ladyady 7y ago"Paris in the fall, the last months of the year, at the end of the millenium. The city holds many memories for me, of music, of cafes, of love, and of death."