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Christmas – eight hundred years ago!

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Tony McMahon

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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

How did buildings swap from being churches to mosques and back again?

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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Toledo in Spain shows how Christians and Muslims lived together and even allowed churches to become mosques and vice versa

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Category: Templar History Tags: Catholic, christ, church, city, Compostela, convivencia, cristo, death, evil, faith, faiths, good, James, jewish, light, Luz, Mesquita, Mezquita, moor, Moorish, mosque, muslim, plague, reconquista, spain, Toledo