Secret Societies of the Middle Ages
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Secret Societies of the Middle Ages is a volume devoted, the text says, to the history of three celebrated societies which flourished during the middle ages. The text names the Assassins, or Ismaïlites, of the East, the military order of the Knights Templars, and the Secret Tribunals of Westphalia, in Germany. The text says the Pythagoreans never made any further attempts at attaining political power, but became a mere sect of mystic philosophers, distinguished by peculiarities of food and dress.
The historian Vinisauf is cited as telling that De Mailly was mounted on a white horse, which, joined with his relucent arms and white mantle, made him appear to the infidels to be St. George. The text describes the body of a criminal suspended from a tree with the schöppe's knife stuck beside it, to intimate by whom he had been judged and condemned.
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- Thomas Keightley
- Pages
- 249
- Language
- English
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- History
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