The secrets of the Cistercian Legacy

"The Knights Templar were probably the single most important influence in the ultimate development of the world we inhabit today."

So state the authors Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe in their much-acclaimed work The Warriors and the bankers. But where did they come from, these mysterious white-mantled Knights of Christ, and were they simply a reflection of early twelfth-century Christian thinking? This is a question that Butler and Dafoe set out to answer-the discoveries they made will result in a dramatic reassessment of the whole period relating to the First Crusade and far beyond.