The Teutonic Knights : Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation, Aleksander Pluskowski

The Teutonic Knights : Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation, Aleksander PluskowskiThis book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the Teutonic Knights, or Teutonic Order, the last of the great military orders established in the twelfth century. Evolving into a powerful religious institution, the Knights left a profound and enduring legacy. Aleksander Pluskowski traces the Order's journey from a field hospital outside the walls of Acre during the Third Crusade to its remarkable rise as a major territorial ruler and power

In Britain today

recounting his triumphs and frustrations

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herbal medicine and natural history

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Derived from Napoleon's extensive correspondence and his other writings and recorded speech

and this absorbing account - part detective story

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Moving across a breadth of source material from government policy to popular music