It must be said that being Jewish in the medieval period was challenging – to put it mildly. The fortunes of Jews at this time varied dramatically but on the whole, things were not good. From the late Roman period,…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: allah, blood libel, christian, christianity, Islam, israel, jews, judaism, knights, middle ages, Muslims, pogrom, portugal, spain, Templar, Torah, william of norwich
I visited Toledo in 2010 and spent a lovely couple of days in this medieval city. Fascinating place because you really sense the Christian, Jewish and Muslim heritage of Al-Andalus in modern Spain. Toledo was once a jewel in the…
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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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Category: Templar History
Tags: anti-semitism, blood libel, Catholic, faith, History of the Jews in Hungary, hugh of lincoln, hungary, Islam, jew, jews, Jobbik, judaism, norwich, pogrom, Politics of Hungary, Prioress' Tale, Templar, william of norwich
Crusades began with the senseless massacre of Jewish people in Europe identified by mobs as being infidels like the Saracens
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Category: Templar History
Tags: allah, Archbishop, crusade, culture, faith, First Crusade, germany, history, Holy Land, Islam, jew, Jewish population, jews, judaism, Mainz, medieval, Moses, religion
What is the bloodline of Jesus and why are the Knights Templar linked to the idea that Jesus Christ had a family and descendants
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: allah, Baignet, Catholic Church, christ, christian, christianity, code, da vinci, desposyni, faith, french, god, Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Holy Grail, jesus, judaism, kings, Leigh, Lincoln, Mary, Mary Magdalene, messiah, Paul, real, religion, Roman Empire, sang, Templar, Tim Wallace-Murphy, wife
The differences and similarities between Jewish moneylenders and the Knights Templar in the Middle Ages
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Category: Templar History
Tags: banking, banks, Catholic, History Channel, jerusalem, jew, jewish, judaism, Knight Templar, Knightfall, lender, lending, Medieval, middle ages, middle east, money, moneylender, Old Testament, papal, Templar, usury