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Malcolm Barber

Malcolm Charles Barber (born 4 March 1943) is a British medievalist. He has been described as the world's leading living expert on the Knights Templar. He is considered to have written the two most comprehensive books on the subject, The Trial of the Templars (1978) and The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple (1994). He has been an…

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Malcolm Barber → An Appreciation, Anne, Ashgate Publishing, Christ, Crusades, Curry, Essays, History, In Housley, Knighthoods, Knights Templar, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Medieval Studies, Norman, Presented, Reading University, Reading UniversityGraduate Centre, Wikisource-logo

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