Assassins vs Templars

Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine. The Assassins and the Knights Templar are two of history's most intriguing, enigmatic, and legendary groups. While they may seem vastly different on the surface, their intertwined stories reveal a surprising number of parallels, from an almost fanatical strategy to the nature of their downfall. Speaking to Emily Briffitt, Dr. Steve Tibble compares their stories and reveals what these two organisations can tell us about medieval conflict, religion and power, and why they continue to captivate us today.

Thank you so much for joining me today to talk all about your new book, Assassins and Templars, a battle in myth and blood. Now, the Assassins and Templars have become two of the most legendary historical groups in modern times. In your book, you speak about this huge dead weight of mythology and conspiracy theories that enshroud them. And some of this you've spoken about on one of our other podcasts, History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories.

So some of that will be covered in that episode and listeners can go and listen to that. But for this episode, for listeners who might not be familiar with these two groups, what is some of this mythos? Yeah, that's a very, very good point. And for me, it was the starting point for writing the book and why I enjoyed it so much was being able to investigate what

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