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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

Medieval Killer Priests who terrorised battlefields!

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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Medieval killer priests were men of the cloth who had no qualms about getting into armour and clubbing their enemies to death in battle

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Category: Templar History Tags: Absalom, Absalon, Archbishop, battle, bayeux, bishop, buried, crusade, death, drenth, kill, killer, Knightfall, norman, odo, pope, priests, Roskilde, Svantevit, Templar, Wend