Mary Becket was the sister of Saint Thomas Becket and an unsung hero who created a leper colony in London as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Abbess, America Unearthed, Archbishop of Canterbury, Barking, borough, chapel, Christmas, colony, essex, fact, Forbidden History, heal, healer, history, Ilford, knight, knights, leper, leprosy, Mary Becket, Mary Beckett, medicine, Medieval, murder, murdered, mystery, Redbridge, Scott Wolter, sister, Templar, Thomas
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates how the leprosy pandemic terrified the medieval world and led to victims being excluded from mainstream society
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Category: Templar History
Tags: attitude, Baldwin, buried, catholic, church, Coronavirus, Covid, Disease, fear, Hansens, history, horror, jerusalem, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, leper, leprosy, medicine, medieval, mystery, pandemic, plague, religion, treatment, victim
Tony McMahon looks at how to survive a medieval pandemic by examining the comments and actions of people who went through the Black Death
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Category: Templar History
Tags: black death, Bubonic Plague, Colorado, Coronavirus, Covid, cure, Decameron, disinfectant, flagellant, flagellation, florence, Galen, Giovanni Boccaccio, god, Hippocrates, humors, humours, Infectious disease, lockdown, lungs, medicine, Medieval, middle ages, onions, pandemic, quack, quarantine, sick
Medieval medicine appears very strange to people today. Disease was associated with sin and wrongdoing as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Anglo-Saxon, black death, Bubonic Plague, channel 4, Disease, illness, medicine, Medieval, Middle Age, Roman Empire, Tony Robinson
Abu al-Qasim was the father of modern surgery and a great example of a thinker from the era of the medieval Muslim caliphate in Spain
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Abu, abu al-qasim, Al-Andalus, christian, Cordoba, ectopic, father, father of modern surgery, fistula, Iberian Peninsula, Islam, medic, medicine, middle ages, muslim, pregnancy, Qasim, Seville, spain, surgery, Toledo, tonsils, translate
The Coronavirus has hit London hard but for centuries plague has stalked this city and the victims are buried right under your feet
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1665, black death, bubonic, Daniel Defoe, danse, dead, death, great, history, knight, London, macabre, medicine, pest, pit, plague, punish, Royal Mint, skeleton, Templar, victim
The BBC has run an article online today about how recorded cases in Tudor times of people dying in rather unfortunate ways. This included a maypole falling over, a woman picking cabbage leaves by a moat and tumbling in and…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: ague, buboes, death, doctor, history, medical, medicine, Medieval, misery, plague, sickness, squalor
