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5 Great Forces Transforming the Medieval Church

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" The second half of the eleventh century was a particularly decisive time in the history of the church. To mention only three of th...

900 Years Council of Nablus, January 16, 1120 - synod, parliament and Templar kick-off

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Very soon after the First Crusade, European troops began to return to their homelands, having fulfilled their promise to liberate the Hol...

The Concept of Martyrdom in the Order of the Knights Templar

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" Martyrdom in the Order of the Knights Templar must be understood as an extremely multilayered and versatile concept. It sometimes rev...

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?