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Why were bodies defleshed in the Crusades?

Posted on February 9, 2019 by Tony McMahon

Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates the defleshing of bodies in the Crusades – a process called excarnation

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Category: Templar History Tags: ban, body, boil, burial, buried, cook, dead, death, deflesh, defleshing, emperor, eviscerate, evisceration, excarnation, fire, flesh, history, kill, king, Knightfall, murder, noble, pope, skeleton, strip, Templar, today, zombie

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Cannibal horror in the Crusades?

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Tony McMahon

A special investigation by the Templar Knight blog into medieval allegations that human meat was eaten by soldiers during the Crusades

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Category: Templar History Tags: cannibal, cannibalism, christian, cook, crusade, crusades, death, Disease, eat, human, Islam, jewish, knighs, massacre, meat, Medieval, moor, muslim, plague, pogrom, pot, Rhineland, saracen, serf, starving, tafur, Tafurs, Templar, tyre, William