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Secret Societies and Sub Rosa
Historical scholarship on the Knights Templars, the Bavarian Illuminati, and the secret societies of the medieval and early-modern West.
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Proofs of a Conspiracy — John RobisonJohn Robison's 1798 accusation that the Bavarian Illuminati infiltrated European Freemasonry and engineered the French Revolution — the founding text of modern conspiracy theory.Secret Societies of the Middle Ages — Thomas KeightleyThomas Keightley's 1837 history of three medieval secret societies: the Persian and Syrian Nizari Ismaili 'Assassins,' the Knights Templars, and the German Fehmgerichte tribunals.The History of the Knights Templars — Charles G. AddisonCharles G. Addison's 1842 history of the Knights Templars, from their founding through their suppression and torture, followed by a history of London's Temple Church.