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Jan
Guillou, trans. Anna Paterson.
The Knight Templar: The Epic Tale of
a Crusader Knight.
London: Orion, 2002.
314pp.
Paperback ISBN
0752846507.
Publisher's
recommended price £10.99
The
second volume
of the bestselling Swedish crusades trilogy, The Knight Templar
is an atmospheric and colourful journey into the heart of the Middle
East,
weaving romance and brutal medieval history into a compelling tale.
Born
in 1150 to
an aristocratic Swedish family, handsome Arn Magnusson is educated at a
Cistercian monastery. But Arn is innocent in the ways of the world, and
when two beautiful sisters cross his path, despite falling desperately
in love with one of them, Cecilia, he is seduced by the other.
Such
a
crime is
punishable by both civil and clerical authorities, and, while Cecilia
is
banished to spend twenty years as a nun, Arn is sentenced to serve the
same period as a Knight Templar in the Holy Land. As an occupation
officer
in Palestine, he discovers that the infidel Saracens don't appear to be
as brutish and uncivilised as they are portrayed in Christian
propoganda.
On the contrary, in love and war he learns from the example of his
noble
adversary Saladin that there's another side to the teachings of the
Cistercians... |
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