Ivanhoe and vilifying Templars
Why did the novelist Walter Scott make the knights look so dreadful?
Greetings Gold and Silver Level Templar Knights! The popular Victorian novelist Walter Scott depicted the Templars as thoroughly evil in his novels, Ivanoe and The Talisman. Why?
The Knights Templar have been depicted as both heroic protagonists and evil antagonists. In the early 19th century, the Scottish romantic author Walter Scott (1771-1832) decided…
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