Michael Haag

history & myth

The Templars

The Durrells of Corfu

An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later, they were arrested, accused of blasphemy, heresy and orgies, and their leaders were burnt at the stake.Part guide, part history, this book investigates the Templar legends and legacy - from the mysteries of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, via nineteenth century development of the Freemasons, through to Templar appearances in Dan Brown and Indiana Jones.This book explains the whole context of Templar history, including the recent evidence discovered by the Vatican that the Templars were not guilty of heresy. It also features a guide to Templar castles and sites.

History & Myth

History and Legend

Quest for Mary Magdalene

City of Memory

Alexandria

Explores the rise and fall of the Templars against the backdrop of the Crusader ideal and their settlement venture in Outremer.

The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

The Tragedy of the Templars

Templariusze Historia i mity

An all-inclusive guide to key concepts and details about Dan Brown’s novel Inferno—featuring black-and-white illustrations. Go deep into the provocative and always compelling world of Dan Brown’s novel, Inferno. Delivering crucial background on the characters, codes, symbols, secrets, and setting of the novel, Inferno Decoded also offers a wealth of fascinating details about the historical and cultural background and the questions it raises. As in Michael Haag’s previous bestseller, The Rough Guide to The Da Vinci Code, the author illuminates the life and work of Dante Alighieri and the world of medieval Florence. Also included: an overview of Dante and his work, along with the other themes of Brown’s thriller; a guide to its sources and Tuscan locations; and a look back at the earlier career of Brown’s hero, Harvard Professor of Symbology, Robert Langdon.

Inferno Decoded

The first history of the legendary knights since the Vatican momentously released the records of their trial and exoneration Who were the Templars? What was the secret of their wealth and power? Why did the pope and the king of France act to destroy them? The Knights Templar were founded on Christmas Day 1119, on the very spot in Jerusalem where Jesus Christ was crucified. A religious order of fighting knights, the Templars defended the Holy Land and Christian pilgrims in the decades after the First Crusade. Legendary for their bravery and dedication, the Templars became one of the wealthiest and most powerful bodies of the medieval world—until they were condemned for heresy two centuries after their foundation, when the order was abolished and its leaders were burned at the stake. In The Templars, renowned historian Michael Haag investigates the origins and history, the enduring myths, and the soaring architecture of an enigmatic order long shrouded in mystery and controversy. The hand of the Templars, many believe, can be found in everything from Cathar heresy to Masonic conspiracies, and the Knights Templar still inspire popular culture, from Indiana Jones to Xbox games, to the novels of Dan Brown.

The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons

Daniela Zörner

Bjela Schwenk

Emilia Lynn Morgenstern

Yves Patak

Frank W. Werneburg

Paul M. Belt

C. Hennings

Veronika Bärenfänger

Anne K. Ramin

Geträumte Welten, große und kleine, locken und verführen ... Aber Vorsicht! Nichts ist so harmlos, wie es anfangs scheint. Ob im Schattenreich oder in der Götterwelt, in Manhattan oder im Wald – hinter Schein und Wahrheit klafft oftmals der Abgrund des Ungewissen. Was verschlägt eine Elbe nach Berlin? Welche Macht obsiegt über kaltblütige Gier? Wer erliegt dem Feenzauber? Wie lebt das kleine Volk von Nian? Zauberer, Werwölfe, Drachen, Götter und noch weit gefährlichere Wesen – zehn Autorinnen und Autoren laden ein zu fantastischen Träumereien ...

Geträumte Welten - Anthologie fantastischer Autoren

An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later, they were arrested, accused of blasphemy, heresy and orgies, and their leaders were burnt at the stake. Part guide, part history, this book investigates the Templar legends and legacy - from the mysteries of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, via nineteenth century development of the Freemasons, through to Templar appearances in Dan Brown and Indiana Jones. This book explains the whole context of Templar history, including the recent evidence discovered by the Vatican that the Templars were not guilty of heresy. It also features a guide to Templar castles and sites.

History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons

Templars

Der Anfang vom Ende

Z: Die verlorene Stadt (Sammelband 1)

Mary Magdalene is a larger figure than any text, larger than the Bible or the Church; she has taken on a life of her own. She has been portrayed as a penitent whore, a wealthy woman, Christ's wife, an adulteress, a symbol of the frailty of women and an object of veneration. And, to this day, she remains a potent and mysterious figure. In the manner of a quest, this book follows Mary Magdalene through the centuries, explores how she has been reinterpreted for every age, and examines what she herself reveals about woman and man and the divine. It seeks the real Mary Magdalene in the New Testament and in the Gnostic gospels where she is extolled as the chief disciple of Christ. It investigates how and why the Church recast her as a fallen woman, it traces her story through the Renaissance when she became a goddess of beauty and love, and it looks at Mary Magdalene as the feminist icon she has become today.

History & Legend

The Quest For Mary Magdalene

This is a literary, social and political portrait of Alexandria during the first half of the twentieth century, a high-point in its history. Drawing on diaries, letters and interviews, Michael Haag recovers the lost life of the city, its cosmopolitan inhabitants and its literary characters. Located on the coast of Africa yet rich in historical associations with Western civilization, Alexandria was home to an exotic variety of people whose cosmopolitan families had long been rooted in the commerce and the culture of the entire Mediterranean world. Alexandria famously excited the imaginations of writers, and Haag folds intimate accounts of E. M. Forster, Greek poet Constantine Cavafy and Lawrence Durrell into the story of its inhabitants. He recounts the city's experience of the two world wars and explores the communities that gave Alexandria its unique flavour: the Greek, the Italian and the Jewish. The book deftly harnesses the sexual and emotional charge of cosmopolitan life in this extraordinary city, and highlights the social and political changes over the decades that finally led to Nasser's Egypt. 'Michael Haag's 'Alexandria' is a remarkable achievement.Not merely a composite biography of Forster, Cavafy and Durrell, or their relations with the city, it is also a history of Alexandria, full of fascinating detail.' Professor Sir Frank Kermode Michael Haag is a writer, photographer and publisher. He published and provided the afterword and notes to the first British edition of E. M. Forster's 'Alexandria: A History and a Guide', and he is the author/photographer of 'Alexandria Illustrated' (The American University in Cairo Press).

Durrellid Korful

Veronica Haag

El Código da Vinci al descubierto

Dan Brown's new thriller The Lost Symbol is the biggest global publishing phenomenon since his runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code. The new adventures of mystery-solving Professor of Symbology, Robert Langdon have attracted huge global interest and fresh controversies concerning Dan Brown's ideas, characters and thoughts on mythology and history.The Rough Guide to The Lost Symbol traces all the debates concerning religion and secret societies and the views of historians on Dan Brown's plots and ideas. It casts an eye on the locations of the book and how you can visit them and explains how The Lost Symbol connects to Brown's previous work and other books. Whether you are a Dan Brown fanatic, sceptic or agnostic there is no doubting the excitement generated by his exciting stories all of which are explored in this guide. This new Rough Guide has the key to understanding The Lost Symbol.

The Rough Guide to The Lost Symbol

In this illuminating companion to Dan Brown's Inferno, historian Michael Haag sets out the truth behind the novel's myths, mysteries and locations. How do the clues unveiled in symbology professor Robert Langdon's daring quest from Florence to Venice and Istanbul overlap with history? What codes and symbols did Dante employ in the Divine Comedy and which secret religious, philosophical, and scientific themes are hidden within his work? What lies behind Botticelli's Mappa dell'Inferno? And what are the cult scientists known as transhumanists really up to? Inferno Decoded is a book that ranges as widely as Dan Brown's novel, from the terrors of the Black Death to the scientific debates around population growth and prolonging of life-spans, and from the economic, political, and religious tumult in Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance to real-life locations in Florence, Venice and Istanbul today. It is a must-read for anyone who has read Inferno and wondered just how its enigmatic questions are real or relevant.

The essential companion to the myths, mysteries and locations of Dan Brown's Inferno

A companion guide to Dan Brown's "Inferno" provides background on the history, characters, settings, and symbols from the work that takes Professor Robert Langdon on a quest from Florence to Venice to Istanbul.

Como Maria Madalena foi reinterpretada em cada época e o que ela revela sobre a mulher, o homem e o divino Prostituta arrependida, mulher rica, discípula e companheira de Jesus, adúltera, símbolo da fragilidade das mulheres, objeto de veneração... Quem realmente foi Maria Madalena? Personagem que extrapola os textos religiosos e a própria Igreja, ela continua sendo uma figura fascinante e misteriosa. Seguindo Maria Madalena através dos séculos, o historiador inglês Michael Haag analisa a forma como ela tem sido reinterpretada a cada época – desde os tempos bíblicos até os dias de hoje. O autor busca a verdadeira Maria Madalena no Novo Testamento e nos evangelhos gnósticos (textos apócrifos dos séculos II a IV), onde ela é exaltada como esposa e principal discípula de Cristo. Comparando com sensatez os dois evangelhos, ele investiga por que e de que maneira a Igreja católica preferiu representá-la como uma mulher pecadora, enquanto Maria, mãe de Jesus, foi simbolizada como a Virgem. Avançando no tempo, Haag mostra que, no Renascimento, Maria Madalena se tornou uma deusa da beleza e do amor; e, ao final, apresenta a Madalena moderna: mulher forte e independente que se transformou em ícone feminista. Em linguagem clara e direta, o livro aborda um tema controverso de modo sóbrio, sem buscar polêmicas fáceis – e com isso oferece ao leitor um estudo sério e cativante sobre uma das personagens mais controversas da história. *** "Ótima leitura. Haag consegue uma clareza de pensamento e uma coesão admiráveis em seu relato, fazendo perguntas que continuam a despertar nossa curiosidade." The Times "Uma visão excepcional de como Maria Madalena foi vista por várias culturas ao longo dos tempos, investigação perturbadora de uma incompreendida heroína da Bíblia." Kirkus Review

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