A special investigation by the Templar Knight blog into medieval allegations that human meat was eaten by soldiers during the Crusades
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Category: Templar History
Tags: cannibal, cannibalism, christian, cook, crusade, crusades, death, Disease, eat, human, Islam, jewish, knighs, massacre, meat, Medieval, moor, muslim, plague, pogrom, pot, Rhineland, saracen, serf, starving, tafur, Tafurs, Templar, tyre, William
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
There’s now no doubt that a grisly discovery in London is a mass grave of Black Death victims from the 14th century. For those of you in the United States and elsewhere, there has already been news and documentary coverage…
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Toledo in Spain shows how Christians and Muslims lived together and even allowed churches to become mosques and vice versa
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Catholic, christ, church, city, Compostela, convivencia, cristo, death, evil, faith, faiths, good, James, jewish, light, Luz, Mesquita, Mezquita, moor, Moorish, mosque, muslim, plague, reconquista, spain, Toledo
There is some very strange ancient graffiti in the church of St Mary in Ashwell in the county of Hertfordshire
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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
Season of the Witch is what you expect with a Nicholas Cage movie – it’s fun and a romp but don’t expect something terribly serious
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: black death, Catholic, church, crusades, faith, Holy Land, Knightfall, Knights Templar, middle ages, plague, Ron Perlman, season of the witch, Templar
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
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