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Philosophy and Christian Context of the Crusades

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" The crusades were wars justified by faith conducted against real or imagined enemies deļ¬ned by religious and political elites as perc...

Merry Christmas with Medieval Carols

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Merry Christmas Medieval Carols , Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly   Support TemplarsNow™ by becoming a  Patron ,  tipping us  or ...

Key Qualities of the Cistercian Order - Simplicity, Practicality and Self-sufficiency

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" The promotion of the tenets of their faith on one hand and desire to return to the simplicity of early monasticism on the other, perm...

Templars as Villains - The Abduction of Rebecca

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Few authors have shaped our image of the Knights Templar as powerfully as Walter Scott. Yet his dramatic villains of pride and corruption b...

The Knights Templar - bleuprint of militarized fraternities

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"Formed in the setting of the Chapter of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem from a brotherhood of Champenois and Burgundian knights, the T...

Did Knights Templar wear beards?

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Many popular pictures show Knights Templar clean shaven. Is this correct?

The objective of the 1st Crusade - the changing Crusaders point of view

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" Crusaders in the East were for the time militia (to the Byzantine Emperor, TN) who were there to serve a purpose. The question of res...

The Paris Chapter of 1147 - France, Rome, and the Temple Under One Roof

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Every five years, the general chapter of the Order of the Temple convened to debate political questions, decide acts binding upon the whole ...

What Triggered the Crusades - the Church's Point of View

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In March 1095, the devastation incurred by the onstorming Seljuk Turks in the Byzantine territories forced Emperor Alexius I to ask Pope Urb...