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About this audiobook
The third volume of the series on the Knights Templar leaves the battlefields behind to delve into the heart of the most complex institution of medieval Europe. The Secret Empire reveals how the Temple built, managed, and sustained for nearly two centuries an organization that was simultaneously an army, a monastery, a bank, and a state. From the hierarchy that distributed power to the calloused hands of the artisans who kept the commanderies alive, from the ships that no one mentions to the human cracks that the rule could never cover up, this book is a portrait of an institution at its peak complexity, viewed from within. It is not the story of battles or mysteries: it is the story of how power truly functions when it is built with patience, administered with rigor, and defended with everything one has, until even that is no longer enough.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 53 mins
Narrated bySantiago Machain
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 31, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11-intro
8C7
2C1
9C8
3C2
10C9
4C3
11C10
5C4
12C11
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6C5
13C12
7C6
14The-End
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