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Beyond the Templars - Hospitaller Traces in the Low Countries

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TemplarsNow normally restricts itself to the Order of the Temple. Yet across the Low Countries the Knights Hospitaller left a far denser and...

The Lords of Breda - Founders of the Only Dutch Templar Commandery

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The Knights Templar left astonishingly few documented traces in the medieval Low Countries. Yet one noble family stands apart from all the ...

Nobles of the Low Countries and the Knights Templar

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Most Templar attributions in the Low Countries dissolve under source-critical scrutiny: sixteenth-century chronicles, misread place-names, c...

Peter the Hermit - Preacher of the People's Crusade

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A barefoot preacher from Picardy set half of Europe marching toward Jerusalem months before the regular armies departed. Peter the Hermit le...

Near Contemporary Templar Iconography - How the Order Was Actually Pictured

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Centuries of romantic engravings and nineteenth century imagination have shaped the popular image of the Knights Templar, yet only a handful...

Tempel in the Low Countries - Water Control, Power, and Place

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In medieval Holland and Zeeland, controlling water meant controlling people. The word tempel named not only sacred spaces but sluice mechani...

Inventing Ancestors - Why Esotericists Gave Neo-Templars a Secret Past

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Across two centuries of popular and initiatic literature, the Knights Templar, medieval and modern alike, have been assigned a remarkable su...

Jihad and Peace - Muslim Rulers and the Dilemma of Alliance with the Franks

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The Crusades are commonly presented as a clash of civilisations driven by the ideology of jihad on one side and holy war on the other. Yet M...

Black Madonnas and Templars

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Black Madonnas are among the most intriguing and enigmatic images in medieval Christian Europe. Found in hundreds of cathedrals and chapels,...