The Knights Templar: The Trial and Suppression of the Order (with Steve Tibble)

About this episode

This episode discusses the trial and suppression of the Knights Templar, featuring historian Steve Tibble.

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is the second in a three part series on the Crusading military order of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, more commonly known as the Templars. My cohost for this series is Dr. Steve Tibble, one of the foremost military historians of the crusades, whose most recent book is Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood (Yale University Press, 2025). In our previous episode Steve and I talked about the origin, mission...

People in this episode

Host: Richard Abels

Guest: Steve Tibble

Topics covered

• Knights Templar
• Crusades
• military history
• medieval history
• religious orders

Keywords

• Knights Templar
• Crusades
• Steve Tibble
• military history
• medieval history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale University Press

Books & works: Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood

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