
Leprosy – a disease that terrified the medieval world!
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates how the leprosy pandemic terrified the medieval world and led to victims being excluded from mainstream society
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates how the leprosy pandemic terrified the medieval world and led to victims being excluded from mainstream society
Easter was massively important in the medieval world marking the death and resurrection of Jesus as well as the return of the sun – with all its pagan connotations as Tony McMahon discovers
In the Middle Ages, it was believed that Jesus worked as a miner in England and that his uncle Joseph of Arimathea brought the Holy Grail to Somerset
Following my post on the Templar stronghold of Tomar in Portugal – here is a video imagining what Tomar would have been like at the height of a Templar power. Enjoy!
Crusades began with the senseless massacre of Jewish people in Europe identified by mobs as being infidels like the Saracens
The Catholic church is full of strange saints with very odd stories as Templar expert Tony McMahon discovers with a bit of digging around
Here’s a Knights Templar fact you never knew about the movie Braveheart. In one of the Scottish hero’s biggest military clashes – two Knight Templar grand masters were killed! Mel Gibson missed the chance to depict a truly epic scene in his movie Braveheart – the slaughter of two leading Knights Templar by his hero’s forces. And…
The Knights Templar were rounded up in Yorkshire a year after the rest of Europe but after resisting the Pope, the English county came into line
The Roman historian Eusebius claims that a group of Desposyni – the descendants of Christ – met the Emperor Domitian as Tony McMahon investigates
The Templars are often accused of being gay or more particularly sodomites but this may have been a propaganda slur reports Tony McMahon
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