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The Crusades - from chaos to shared ideal in Christian Europe

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"Following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century, Christian Europe had wrestled with increasingly senseless and unc...

Crusader-Muslim Relationships during the Crusades

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ln the late eleventh century, when the first crusade arrived in the Middle East, the region was not predominantly Muslim. The population was ...

Templar wealth: personal austerity, liturgical richness

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Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux had noted in his letter " In praise of the new knighthood " that the Templars led an austere lifestyle ...

Friday, 13 October 1307 - an affair of state

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The arrest of the French Templars on Friday 13 October 1307 left its mark on the minds of contemporaries. It even gave rise to myths and sup...

The facts on Mount Sion and the crusaders

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Ever since the Priory of Sion (or Zion) was made famous by popular literature as well as a recent relaunch of a similarly named association ...

Louis IX and his Holy relics

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" In 1236, the Latin emperor of Constantinople, Baldwin II, approached the West for help in defending his moribund empire, one of the L...

The high expenses of Templars in the Holy Land

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Keeping the Templar army in the Holy Land took considerable effort. Some figures.

The medieval religious Orders as peace negotiators

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" The religious military orders of the Middle Ages are often characterised by the image of soldier-monks, dedicated to combat, prayer a...

Templars and water

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The Templars carefully chose the site where they would build their "domus". One of the most important points was accessibility to ...