Medieval video games – do they give a realistic picture of life in the medieval era and which of them transport you back 800 years in time?
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Age, Age of Empires II, Elder Scrolls, Empires, games, kings, Medieval, medieval video games, Mordhau, Skyrim, video
What was a medieval Christmas really like? Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates Christmas in the Middle Ages
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Category: Templar History
Tags: abbot, Ancient, blind, buff, carol, Christmas, dark, dulci, egg, feast, feasting, game, games, goose, jubilo, light, Lord, Medieval, middle ages, mike oldfield, misrule, modern, sun, Templar, turkey, unreason, wassail, wassailing, winter solstice, Yule, yuletide
Graeme Davis discusses his book: Knights Templar A Secret History with Tony McMahon
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: 1307, america, Assassins Creed, dragons, dungeons, Emile, fact, fantasy, fiction, Fouchet, games, gaming, Graeme Davis, history, knights, mystery, myth, Osprey, secret, Templar, today, trial, truth, Warhammer
The Knights Templar have been a huge influence on medieval video games sometimes as the good guys but very often as the villains
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Adelle, Assassins Creed, Broken Sword, clown, computer, console, games, George Stobbart, Infernal Crusade, knights templar, Mac, Medieval, PC, Shadow, Templar, templars, The First Templar, video, video game, Xbox
There’s some amazing medieval video games out there but do they reflect the real horror of medieval battles and sieges – Tony McMahon reports
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Category: Templar History
Tags: A Plague Tale, battle, Blade, castle, Chronicles of Elyria, crusades, Darkborn, death, game, games, history, knights, Medieval, military, Mordhau, Mount, Mount & Blade, Outward, siege, Templar, templars, The Settlers, torture, Total War, Valhall, video, violence, war
An earlier blog post on medieval chess was very popular among fans of the Templars and I even got this message all the way from Egypt
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Chess was a courtly game of skill among both Christians and Muslims in the Templar era with even the knights playing their Muslim enemies at times
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