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    Jul 14, 2022 4 minutes

    The Healing Practices of the Knights Templar and Hospitaller

    Plants, Charms, and Amulets of the Healers of the Crusades

    Jon G Hughes

    Destiny Books, 2022

    Pb, £17.99, 416pp, ISBN 9781544113301

    The Knights Templar do not readily come to mind when we think if healing organisations of the Middle Ages, but the bad press gained by the chivalric orders of Crusaders should not detract from the positive accomplishments of the Hospitallers. With this in mind, Hughes has studied how the latter spread Western European medical knowledge to the Levant and brought back Middle Eastern knowledge and techniques. Hughes has also studied the travels of Crusader physicians from the Mediterranean to the northern reaches

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