
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Cannibal horror in the Crusades?
A special investigation by the Templar Knight blog into medieval allegations that human meat was eaten by soldiers during the Crusades
A special investigation by the Templar Knight blog into medieval allegations that human meat was eaten by soldiers during the Crusades
The period of Lent leading up to Easter was hazardous for Jews in the Middle Ages falsely accused of the killing of Jesus by ignorant people
The fervour of the Crusades often saw public anger turn against Jewish people in medieval Europe.
A terrible and disgraceful act when England conducted a racist pogrom and expelled its Jews in the 13th century
The relationship between the Jews and the Knights Templar was complex with the knights protecting Jewish people as Tony McMahon discovers
Seventeen bodies of Jewish people killed in a medieval pogrom have been discovered in a well in England – a tragic example of racism in the past, as Tony McMahon discovers.
King Philip of France, as depicted in Knightfall, crushed the Templars because he was short of money as Tony McMahon explains
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