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Clairvaux Abbey - 900 years in 3D animation

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Watch de video here The abbey of Clairvaux (today at the commune of Ville-sous-La-Ferté, in the Aube Department, France), the third daughter...

Knights Templar and martyrdom: the most original form of Christian sanctity

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In battle, martyrdom "for the good cause" is and has always been present. As it was in the ranks of the Knights Templar. In their ...

Knights Templar stables at Jerusalem not built by Solomon but by Herod

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source In the eighteenth year of his reign (20–19 BCE), king Herod the Great (74/73 BCE – 4 BCE) rebuilt the Second Temple in Jerusal...

Cistercian Clairvaux Abbey - 900 years

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" The event "Clairvaux 2015" is to celebrate the 900 years of this jewel of European memory. A young monk of 25 years...

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...