"A scrupulously scholarly analysis."-The Times Literary Supplement

Written by one of France's greatest medieval scholars, this study of one of the most gruesome episodes of European history is now re-issued with important new material contained in the Chirion parchment from the Vatican. The Last Templar examines the Templar's arrests and trials, the transcripts of the inquisitions, and Jacques de Molay's devastating confession.

Alain Demurger is an honorary lecturer in medieval history at the University of Paris. He has written and published extensively on the military religious orders that grew out of the Crusades.