![]() ![]() “Far from dark,” he writes, “the medieval past was not only colorful and fascinating, but too important and too useful to be ignored. Describing his task as “cutting a path through the thickets of Romanticism,” Kaeuper says that people in the 1800s in England and continental Europe, and to a lesser extent, the United States, looked back to the Middle Ages in a search for national identity and in an effort to escape problems of modernity. The title of his book is deliberate because Kaeuper wants to emphasize that what he is examining is medieval chivalry, not post-medieval chivalry or neo-Romantic chivalry. Young Knight in a Landscape by Vittore Carpaccio. Mystery of the Knights Templars: Protectors or Treasure Hunters on a Secret Mission?. ![]() The Guilt of the Gnostic Knights Templar: The Chinon Parchment. ![]()
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