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The Knights Templar
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History's Greatest Automotive Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed
"The automotive world is filled with crazy stories, mysteries, myths, rumors, and legends. This book compiles them all, from subjects such as racing, manufacturing, crime, pop culture, and mechanical, explains their origins and where the truth lies"--
The Knights Templar
Since their descent into oblivion in 1307 from their position as one of the most powerful institutions of the Middle Ages, the Knights Templar have been a source of great fascination, and the subject of much historical research. In this beautifully illustrated book, Alan Butler takes the reader from their humble beginnings to their tumultuous destruction 200 years later. The author covers every theory relating to the Templar Order from their association with Freemasonry to the proposition that key members of the order escaped with the fabled Templar treasure to Switzerland, where they continue one of their major activities as bankers to the world.
Debunking History
History is full of myths, legends, fables, folklore, misinformation and misconceptions. Whether they have come about inadvertently or deliberately, many have become part of the public imagination. This book presents some of the most popular and enduring of these myths from the time of the American and French revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. Arranged within well defined geographical or thematic sections, and through a mix of short and long entries, each topic is clearly explained and the myth, error or controversy is exposed. This is an authoritative, compelling and illuminating miscellany, where you can find a straight answer to all those niggling questions about the past.
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene -- probably the Bible's most enigmatic and controversial figure -- has fired imaginations for nearly two thousand years. In the search for the true story, the author takes readers through the gospels of the New Testament, the Gnostic Gospels, and Nag Hammadi texts, as well as through the High Middle Ages when adoration of Mary Magdalene was at its height.Dr. Ralls considers both the Western tradition of Mary Magdalene, which documents her escaping persecution and landing in the south of France with her family and many others; and the Eastern tradition, which describes her ending her days as a hermit in Ephesus. All is considered -- from Mary Magdalene's importance to medieval pilgrims to the more contentious theories of her supposed marriage to Jesus.
Myths That Shaped Our History
“Simon Webb’s eminently readable book may draw gasps of horror, disbelief, or disdain . . . a mind-blowing and fascinating journey through history.” —On: Yorkshire Magazine All nations and peoples have a body of legendary tales and semi-historical episodes which explain who they are and help to define their place in the world. The British are no exception, and in this book, Simon Webb explores some of the most well-known episodes from British history; stories which tell the British about themselves and the country in which they live. Examining these events in detail reveals something rather surprising. In every case, the historical facts are greatly at variance with what most British...
Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method
Carlo Ginzburg considers how we assign historical context to events. More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freud’s wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential centerpiece of the volume Carlo Ginzburg places historical knowledge in a long tradition of cognitive practices and shows how a research strategy based on reading clues and traces embedded in the historical record reveals otherwise hidden information. Acknowledging his debt to art history, psychoanalysis,...
Saying It's So
The story of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and his White Sox teammates purportedly conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds has lingered in our collective consciousness for a century. Daniel A. Nathan's wide-ranging history looks at how journalists, historians, novelists, filmmakers, and baseball fans have represented and remembered the scandal. Nathan's reflections on what these different cultural narratives reveal about their creators and eras shape a fascinating study of cultural values, memory, and the ways people make meaning.
Founding Myths
First published ten years ago, award-winning historian Ray Raphael’s Founding Myths has since established itself as a landmark of historical myth-busting. With the author’s trademark wit and flair, Founding Myths exposes the errors and inventions in America’s most cherished tales, from Paul Revere’s famous ride to Patrick Henry’s “Liberty or Death” speech. For the seventy thousand readers who have been captivated by Raphael’s eye-opening accounts, history has never been the same. In this revised tenth-anniversary edition, Raphael revisits the original myths and explores their further evolution over the past decade, uncovering new stories and peeling back additional layers of misinformation. This new edition also examines the highly politicized debates over America’s past, as well as how school textbooks and popular histories often reinforce rather than correct historical mistakes. A book that “explores the truth behind the stories of the making of our nation” (National Public Radio), this revised edition of Founding Myths will be a welcome resource for anyone seeking to separate historical fact from fiction.
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