The Templar Knight
Mysteries of the Knights Templar
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The ill treatment of Jews in medieval Lent
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
Read MoreBeing Jewish in medieval Europe
The fervour of the Crusades often saw public anger turn against Jewish people in medieval Europe. There were brutal assaults and even murder. Though the horror experienced by medieval Jewish people would not equal the industrial scale nightmare that we…
Read MoreJews and the Knights Templar – a complex relationship
The relationship between the Jews and the Knights Templar was complex with the knights protecting Jewish people
Read MoreSeventeen Jewish bodies found in medieval well in England
A grim reminder of the pogroms that accompanied the crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries in Europe has been the gruesome discovery in England of seventeen skeletons in a medieval well. The skeletons, jumbled together, have been subjected to…
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