
Medieval Christmas – eight centuries ago!
What was a medieval Christmas really like? Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates Christmas in the Middle Ages
What was a medieval Christmas really like? Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates Christmas in the Middle Ages
The walking dead in the Middle Ages – may be a reality as Tony McMahon discovers in a north English village cemetery long abandoned
Did the Knights Templar engage in secret initiation rites that were discovered by the Catholic church leading to their downfall?
The period of Lent leading up to Easter was hazardous for Jews in the Middle Ages falsely accused of the killing of Jesus by ignorant people
The ancient Roman city of Jerash never stopped changing through the Byzantine and crusader period though it declined economically and because of earthquakes
The Templar Knight blog has just visited the biblical city of Gadara – part of the Decapolis – and now known as Um Qais to see its Roman ruins
Saint Lucy had her eyes gouged out and today they can be found at a church in Naples as Tony McMahon discovers
Medieval London was a walled city and there’s a still a street called London Wall that follows where the now demolished wall once stood
Syria was a prized possession of the Knights Templar – or at least parts of it – before the knights were forced out of the country
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