I also hope that this book will encourage readers to explore the voluminous scholarly literature that exists on the military orders and on the Templars in particular, by distinguished and brilliant academics including Malcolm Barber, Helen Nicholson, Alan Forey, Jochen Burgtorf, Alain Demurger, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Judi Upton-Ward, Anthony Luttrell, Jonathan Phillips, Norman Housley, Jochen Schenk, Paul Crawford, Peter Edbury, Anne Gilmour-Bryson and many others, on which I have drawn here with the greatest respect and gratitude.
