A review of Tate Britain's SCULPTURE VICTORIOUS exhibition celebrating the powerful, beautiful, and inventive sculpture of the Victorian era. When Parliament formally resumes on 27 Ma [...]
The last blog ended in the 1120s, with the newly formed Templars in Jerusalem starting to feel uneasy with the idea of monks spilling blood. Although King Baldwin ii and Patriarch Warmund of Jerusa [...]
The Knights Templar shook the known world. Everything about them was radical. This blog will look at their origins. INTRODUCTION In 1982, one of the earliest Templar ‘consp [...]
The knights, sergeants, and chaplains of the Order were its inner group of brothers: the familia. The affiliates and paid staff were a more loosely connected group: the societas. Together, they [...]
INTRODUCTION A new knighthood has arisen, of a type never before heard of on earth ... this is happening in Jerusalem, and the whole world shakes. St Bernard of Clairvaux [1] St Bernard, abbot of [...]
In The Sword of Moses, Malchus is obsessed with the enigmatic figure of Dr John Dee (1527–1609). Dee was born in Tudor London to a Welsh father and English mother during the reign of King Henry vii [...]
@DrLRoach Unlike the White Horse at Uffington, there are no medieval mentions of the Cerne Abbas giant. Far more likely he is post-medieval neo-Celtic fun!
