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Templar crop circle in the village of Temple Balsall in England
Some mysterious crop circles turned up in Temple Balsall where the Templars once had a preceptory
Read MoreHow English churches have radically transformed since the Knights Templar
How English churches have radically transformed since the Knights Templar with the removal of rood screens and whitewashing of walls
Read MoreHow did buildings swap from being churches to mosques and back again?
Toledo in Spain shows how Christians and Muslims lived together and even allowed churches to become mosques and vice versa
Read MoreSecrets of the Knights Templar – things you never knew!
Secrets of the Knights Templar revealed on The Templar Knight blog such as how they wore their hair and eating habits
Read MoreSeason of the Witch – Nicholas Cage and the Templars
Season of the Witch – a Templar movie with Nicholas Cage that isn’t quite as bad as you may think
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…
Read MoreA Pope calls for a Crusade against Islam
The year was 1095. In the east, the Greek speaking Byzantine empire – inheritors of what had been left of the eastern Roman empire – had experienced a huge loss of territory to the Seljuk Turks. These nomads had swept…
Read MoreYour 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,…
Read MoreWhy so much blood and gore in Roman Catholic churches in the Latin world?
Why is there so much blood and gore in Catholic churches in southern Europe?
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