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Bernardo Gui – inquisitor at the time of the Knights Templar

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Tony McMahon

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The BBC is broadcasting a new TV series based on The Name of the Rose – a fantastic novel by the late Italian author Umberto Eco. It tells the story of a Franciscan friar, William of Baskerville, who visits an…

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Category: Templar History Tags: Baskerville, Bernardo, Bernardo Gui, burning, Catholic, church, Conrad, death, Foucault's Pendulum, friars, Gui, heresy, heretic, innocent, Inquisition, Islam, jewish, knight, Konrad, Marburg, monks, murder, muslim, Name, name of the rose, Pendulum, poison, pope, Rose, Salvatore, sin, stake, Talmud, Templar, Tomás, Torquemada, umberto eco, William

Name of the Rose – an amazing medieval movie!

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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Name of the Rose is a detective thriller set in a medieval monastery. This genre bending story from the pen of Italian author Umberto Eco had “make me into a movie” written all over it. Murder, intrigue and gory death…

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Category: Templar History Tags: Christian Slater, Foucault, Foucault's Pendulum, history, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, James Bond, medieval, movie, name of the rose, nombre, Robert DeNiro, rosa, sean connery, umberto eco