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Templar Houses and local society in Britain

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" This article has set out a small selection of the evidence surviving in the records of the ‘Templar’s affair’ in the British Isles...

Eastern influence in pre-crusade southern France

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Southern France has, long before the start of the Crusades at the end of the 11th Century, been a gateway to the Orient. 

"Just warfare" and the rise of the military religious orders in the 12th century

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" In an ideological sense, the growth of the military orders was fostered by a theological shift in attitude of the Church towards just...

Were the Knights Templar and the Ismaili Assassins linked?

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Historians point out repeatedly analogies linking the Shia Ismaili to the Templars: both orders used initiation and were military and held t...

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...