The trials of the Knights Templar saw prosecutors using accusations of demonic magic and necromancy. It was an early sign that witchcraft and sorcery were moving into the medieval mainstream. Previously, wizards and witches, while being condemned, were viewed as a fringe threat to Christian belief – a hangover from paganism. But in the late…
Why were the Knights Templar founded? Who were the original Templars? Tony McMahon investigates.
The Templecombe connection in rumours that the Turin Shroud was once in the hands of the Knights Templar as Tony McMahon explains
Sodomy was a standard smear against your enemies in the Middle Ages. And one person prepared to do the smearing was a bishop called Adam of Orleton.
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