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Ivanhoe and vilifying Templars

Ivanhoe and vilifying Templars

Why did the novelist Walter Scott make the knights look so dreadful?

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Tony McMahon
Apr 25, 2025
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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?

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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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