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Tough time being a medieval woman

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Tony McMahon

The medieval mind had some crazy views of the medieval woman viewing her bodily functions as evil and dangerous as Tony McMahon discovers

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Category: Templar History Tags: Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Galen, Greek, Henrietta Leyser, history, medieval, middle ages, roman, woman, women

Templars and sodomy – were the knights really gay?

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Tony McMahon

The Templars are often accused of being gay or more particularly sodomites but this may have been a propaganda slur

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Category: Templar History Tags: Anal sex, Catholic, Catholic Church, confess, equality, faith, gay, heresy, homosexual, king, Knight Templar, lesbian, lgbt, LGBTQ, London, man, marriage, Medieval, men, middle ages, Philip, queer, religion, Roman Empire, sentence, sodomy, Templar, torture, trial, woman

Were women allowed to join the Templars?

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Tony McMahon

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If women were allowed to join the Knights Templar – it remains a mystery what role they played in the order

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Category: Templar History Tags: battle, feminine, feminism, history, knight, Medieval, nun, Templar, war, woman, women