In his 1,500-page manifesto, confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik claimed allegiance to a resurrected version of the Knights Templar, a medieval formation of Christian soldiers who ...

If there were ever such a thing as a post-truth era, it began 710 years ago, at dawn on Friday, Oct. 13, 1307, in the kingdom of France. Yet of course, as the ancients knew, there is no new thing ...

In contemporary literature, the Order of the Knights Templar was the focus of novels by Dan Brown (“The DaVinci Code”), Umberto Eco (“Foucault’s Pendulum”) and Ken Follett (“The Pillars of the Earth”) ...

The Knights Templar were warrior monks bound by strict vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, yet they became one of the ...

If Oxford-based medieval historian Karen Ralls was on TV's Mastermind, her special subject would be the Knights Templar. Knowing that they were surrounded by inaccurate myths, three years ago she ...

Knightfall, the new television series from the History Channel, chronicles the fall of the Knights Templar, a military group that fought on behalf of the Catholic Church – and follows one member who ...

Knight time: In the 13th century, medieval warriors of the sometimes mysterious Knights Templar order settled in western Poland. Among their constructions was the Saint Stanislaus chapel in the ...