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Perhaps, you could read the book and prove the author wrong )

@@s.latens I leave that to someone else. I have studied the English medieval period to some extent, and while the Templars provided financial services to the English crown, as did other religious groups like the Cistercians, as well as the usual feudal and merchant classes, they did little to change the actual structure of English life. Since the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, there has been a flood of books cashing in on the Templars, and this looks like just another one.

@@helloxyz It seems you agree with the author, Dr. Steve Tibble: “The reality of the Templar achievement in Britain and beyond is so rich and so extraordinary that it needs no embellishment. There is undoubtedly a lot of fun to be had with the obsessions of popular culture - with Holy Grails, Assassins and Illuminati. But it is important not to confuse it with history.” “Steve Tibble is a graduate of Cambridge and London Universities, and is a research associate at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is one of the foremost academics currently working in the field of the crusades, and is the author of the warfare and strategy chapters in both 'The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades' and 'The Cambridge History of the Crusades' (2023). “

@@s.latens I agree with that bit. But I disagree that any single organisation, as an organisation, had the kind of effect he claims in his subtitle. Especially as the Templars were extinct 300 or even 400 years before the birth of Britain. He is pandering to the Great Man Great Date scheme of history, to which I do not pander. The Templars were just one of many organisations that were set up, almost by accident, which avoided the kind of taxation which prevented successful long-term investment. Town corporations, religious orders, especially the Cistercians, and the Templars were founded with a charter drawn up by a Cistercian, with the same tax advantages, and later the banks. In many ways, the Templars operated like the Italian and the later Jewish banks. But it was their tax advantages and financial activities that rendered benefit, but they were by no means unique at the time.

@@helloxyz So you mostly disagree with marketing, as the original title was 'Templars - The Knights of Britain’. To my taste it’s a good hook with ‘made’. I think the Templars themselves would have used that if they had a chance.