Roger II was a crusader-era king who fought for the Catholic faith but created a kingdom that fused western, Byzantine, and Islamic culture in an unexpected multicultural mix that aroused suspicion and led to his excommunication by the pope. Tony McMahon investigates.
The 13th Warrior is a movie based on a book by Michael Crichton that takes you back to the Dark Ages. It got a terrible critical reception on release.
The Fatimid Empire presented a formidable foe to the Knights Templar but in the 1160s it collapsed – Tony McMahon investigates.
What links the Knights Templar to the Jewish mystical codes of the magical Kabbalah? Tony McMahon explains.
Caperneum the home town of Jesus on my visit in 2012
Tiberias – near to where the Battle of Hattin took place
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates why the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was so venerated by the Knights Templar in the Middle Ages
Abu al-Qasim was the father of modern surgery and a great example of a thinker from the era of the medieval Muslim caliphate in Spain
Constantinople was destroyed during the Fourth Crusade – a treacherous act by Christian crusaders in the year 1204 led by Venice
Several medieval kings of England are believed to have been LGBT. Tony McMahon investigates.
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