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" (...) There seems to have been a concerted effort in Scandinavia from the beginning of the twelth century to turn the wilderness in th...

" The parchment of Chinon contains the absolution by Pope Clement V of the leading members of the Templar Order. It was issued after t...

Often it is suggested that the Templar founder and first Master Hugues de Payns and the Templar's spiritual inspirer, the Cistercian abb...

The medieval period brought on the maritime scene the emergence of new construction and navigation techniques coming mainly from the North, ...

Michael the Syrian (ca 1129-1199) is also known as Michael the Great or Michael Syrus or Michael the Elder, to distinguish him from his neph...

We can consider that the great majority of the brothers of the Temple were indeed arrested throughout the kingdom of France, during the raid...

The medieval Cistercian numerals, or 'ciphers' in 19th-century parlance, were developed by the Cistercian monastic order in the earl...

Walter Map (Latin: Gualterius Mappus ; French: Gautier Map; 1140 – c. 1210) was an English medieval  courtier and writer. Map claimed that...

Unlike what is generally thought, there was no Cistercian Order as a united entity for much of the twelfth Century. (...) Such a Cistercian ...