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
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I was in Italy in August and September this year and visited many medieval sites – in the next few blog posts, I’ll give you some highlights. But first – let’s meet a very odd medieval saint – Catherine of…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: All Saints Day, black death, bowl, breast, cancer, catherine, Catherine Wheel, ecstatic, Grail, italy, jesus, marriage, pandemic, pus, quest, ring, saint, Siena, Templar, vision
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
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