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Toledo, Spain: medieval bridge between ancient, classical, arab and western knowledge

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The Toledo School of Translators is the group of scholars who worked together in the city of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries, to...

The Knights Templar and "Solomon's Stables"

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The Knights Templar are said to have been using Solomon's Stables, vaults below the Temple Mount at Jerusalem. These "Stables...

Sufism in Muslim Religious Trends during the Middle Ages

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The contradictory trends in Islamic civilization - social strife and political divisions versus expanding trading links and intellectual ...

Development of the trade system in the 10th to 12th century

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For a better understanding of the origin of the Medieval military Orders in general and the Knights Templar in particular, it is necessar...

The Middle Ages: Brilliant instead of Dark

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There is no period in history more misunderstood than the Middle Ages. Providence College Professor of English, Anthony Esolen, vividly demo...

Clairvaux Abbey, major site for Cistercians and Knights Templar - 900th anniversary

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The Cistercian Abbey of Clairvaux was the home of Saint Bernard of Crairvaux, founder of this Cistercian Abbey and spiritual supporter of th...

Modern Knights Templar in Côte d’Or Region, NE France

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More than eight hundred years after the execution of Jacques de Molay (Last Master of the Knights Templar), the Templars leave the shadow...

Knights Templar and Switzerland

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The current Knights Templar Headquarters of the OSMTH branch are in Geneva.  This country befits and holds similar many of the most common...
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Contemporary criticism on Templar fighting

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" There were many other complaints against the military orders before 1300. Perhaps the most significant were the divided opinions ov...