Aleppo – medieval city under threat
Aleppo is a medieval city in the Middle East under threat from terrorist attack as Tony McMahon reports
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Medieval Toledo – city of three faiths
Even more than Seville or Cordoba – medieval Toledo affords you a glimpse of life in Spain as a Muslim, Jewish and Christian civilisation
How to survive a medieval pandemic!
Tony McMahon looks at how to survive a medieval pandemic by examining the comments and actions of people who went through the Black Death
The Name of the Rose – medieval thriller!
Name of the Rose was a novel by the Italian author Umberto Eco who was obsessed with the Knights Templar as Tony McMahon discovers
Horrific medieval medical treatments!
Medieval medicine appears very strange to people today. Disease was associated with sin and wrongdoing as Tony McMahon discovers
British Museum takes apart the Holy Sepulchre
A model of the Holy Sepulchre from the 1600s taken apart at the British Museum
Nimrod Fortress in the Holy Land
Nimrod Fortress is a castle that dates back 2,000 years but most of today’s construction is from the Islamic period.
How did a Templar go to the toilet?
Tony McMahon discovers how the Knights Templar more than likely went to the toilet during a visit to the castle at Acre in modern Israel
Did violence in the bible inspire the Crusades?
How violence in the Bible was used to justify the medieval crusades including massacres as Tony McMahon discovers
The Forgotten Crusade: Egypt
How Egypt came to be the centre of a bloody crusade pitching Christian Europe against the Muslim caliphate with devastating consequences
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