Hierusalem: declino e caduta di un sogno sul finire del XII secolo

This paper analyzes four chapters of De nugis curialium (I, 18, 19, 21, 22) where Walter Map, who never went in the Holy Land, strikes an heavy critical judgment about Templars, who are accused of accumulating immense wealth and in the same time of infringing the evangelic dictum against the use of violence in any case, also if it is aimed at the defence of Christianity. The author concludes that the genuine Templars’ purpose is to perpetuate the conflict and, in this manner, their hegemony in the Middle East. This point of view is also in part shared by William of Tyre, who grew up in Jerusalem