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The Knights Templar . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Henry VIII’s savage Reformation

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Christopher de Bellaigue in conversation

The Islamic Enlightenment: Christopher de Bellaigue and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in conversation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the capture of Jerusalem during the third crusade

Crusader, deserter and traitor: the life and legacy of Raymond III of Tripoli

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5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Dark Ages

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The big questions of the Holocaust . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What religion was practised by the people of Lithuania before their conversion to Christianity in the 14th century?

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Medieval Albigensians: Bath’s reincarnated heretics

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Wolfson History Prizes: Nazi camps and St Augustine . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The ruins of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. Henry’s motives when dismantling such monasteries “were much more complex than pure revenge or pure avarice alone”, says Adam Morton. (Photo by Getty Images)

History explorer 6 places to explore the dissolution of the monasteries . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Dissolution and a forgotten colony . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1754: Siege of a town led by Godefroy de Bouillon (c1060-1100) 1st Crusade (1095-1099), showing Saracens firing arrows at Crusaders as they attempt to scale the walls. From manuscript of Roman de Godefroy de Bouillon. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Crusades

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Muslims and Jews in the 16th century . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vulcan caught Venus and Mars in a net and shows them to the laughing Gods. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Religion in ancient Rome: what did they believe?

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The tomb of the Crusader knight Richard de Crupes.

Books interview with Christopher Tyerman: “Religious war isn’t an irrational act, and we shouldn’t dismiss it as irrational” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.