Alain Demurger is a French historian, and a leading specialist of the history of the Knights Templar and the Crusades.[1][2][3]

Alain Demurger is a honorary maître de conférences at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.[1] He specializes in the history of the Crusades, the history of the religious orders, and the state of France at the end of the Middle Ages.[1]

Demurger has been praised as the author of a good general survey on the Knights Templar, in Malcolm Barber's book The New Knighthood (p. 397): "There are good general surveys, by Marie-Louise Bulst-Theile, Sacrae Domus Militiae Templi Hierosolymitani Magistri (1974), and Alain Demurger, Vie et mort de l'ordre du Temple" (Life and Death of the Order of the Temple) (1985).[4]

Publications

Military orders

Knights Templar

Crusades

Middle ages

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Video

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Jacques de Molay", Back cover
  2. ^ Alain Demurger, Master of Conference at Université Paris-I, in an interview with Le Point, "La Chute du Temple", May 27th 2008. Online article
  3. ^ "Alain Demurger, one of the most eminent specialists of the history of the Order", Jean-Philippe Camus, Doctor in Medieval History at University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, in "Societes secretes", p.58, No2 Novembre 2007
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