How a Knight Templar celebrated Christmas!
Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at how Christmas would have been celebrated by the Knights Templar – welcome to a medieval Christmas of feasting!
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Newark Castle – Knights Templar prison
Newark Castle saw many English Knights Templar imprisoned in its dungeons interrogated and tortured after the order was suppressed in 1307
The Knights Templar versus the medieval chroniclers
The Knights Templar got a terrible write up from medieval chroniclers like Walter Map and William of Tyre
Medieval Killer Priests who terrorised battlefields!
Medieval killer priests were men of the cloth who had no qualms about getting into armour and clubbing their enemies to death in battle
Your Day of Judgment has arrived – medieval style
In English medieval churches, it’s now almost impossible to imagine the walls as they once were – covered in lurid depictions of the Day of Judgment and hell fire for the sinful. During the Protestant Reformation, church walls were whitewashed, the faces of saints in wood carving were hacked off and stain glass windows even…
Inquisition hunts down Christian converts
Christian converts from Judaism and Islam may have hoped to avoid the Spanish Inquisition but the 1506 Lisbon massacre proved otherwise as Tony McMahon reports
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