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Royston Cave: Used by Saints or Sinners?

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UPC:
9780955740008
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2011-10-01
Author:
Sylvia Beamon
Language:
english
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Royston Cave-Used by Saints or Sinners? puts Royston's unique cave, so remarkably engraved with religious figures, pagan and Masonic symbols, into its historical context. It explores similarities between carvings and graffiti found in Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and elsewhere in Britain and Europe.

This fascinating book explains the historical influences of the Order of the Knights Templar and their rival crusading order, The Knights Hospitallers, who later inherited most their estates. It shows how the cave's structure bears comparison with the Church of The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which was at the heart of the Templar's world.

Its original research provides a wealth of information on:

The formation of the Templars

The history and enigma of Royston cave

Their commercial enterprises and banking system

Their cult and esoteric knowledge and their eventual downfall

Mediaeval carvings and symbols

This book will be relevant for Historians, Archaeologists or those wishing to explore the cave and the many other exciting historic and Templar sites throughout Europe.