I was at a christening two years ago when a priest in an Anglican church read a passage from the Old Testament. It was the story of how God’s annointed people, the Israelites, totally destroyed a rival tribe taking no…
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Life in the Middle Ages was way more violent on average than daily life today which is way more civilised by comparison
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Category: Templar History
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Some of the brutality and horror that used to occur during medieval sieges to intimidate the enemy
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Category: Templar History
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In the 1970s, the BBC aired a very violent historical drama based in the Middle Ages called The Devil’s Crown and has been very unwilling to give it a repeat airing
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Category: Templar News
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