In most agrarian cultures, the horse was the basic unit of power. Indeed, the Mongols, the military superpower of the Middle Ages, as it is put by Stephen Morillo, the author of WAR AND CONFLICT ...

Zodiac horse diagram in Manuel Díes' late 15th ... but the question was nonetheless a matter of some debate.) By the end of the Middle Ages, the earlier view of creation that reserved an exalted ...

One of the Templars’ more enigmatic symbols was their wax seal – two knights riding a single horse. In the Middle Ages, people used seals to protect important communications from forgery ...

(The Conversation) — Warrior-monks crusaded for Christianity throughout medieval Europe. Adding to the ongoing mystery surrounding the military order is their enigmatic seal. (The Conversation ...