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Little Saint Hugh: England’s Worst Blood Libel Craze

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 September 2026

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Abraham of Kent, Adam of Bristol, anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, armed pilgrimage, Beilis Affair, Beilis Case, blood libel, Cahorsins, Caursines, Christendom, Christianity, Coin-Clipping Scandal of 1279, conspiracy theories, Copin, Count Theobald V of Blois, Domus Conversorum, Edward I, England, English Civil Wars, First Crusade, France, Franciscans, Fulda, Geoffrey Chaucer, Germany, Hapsburg Austria, Harold of Gloucester, Henry III, Holy Land, Hopkins Witch Panic, House of Converts, Hugh of Lincoln, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, John of Lexington, King John, Lachrymabilem judaeorum, legends, Licoricia of Winchester, Lincoln Cathedral, Little Saint Hugh, Medieval Era, Menahem Mendel Beilis, Middle Ages, monks, Norman conquest of England, Oliver Cromwell, Papal Bull, Papal Revolution, Passion of Christ, People’s Crusade, pogroms, Pope Gregory VII, Popish Plot, Richard I, Richard of Devizes, Richard the Lionheart, ritual murder accusations, Robert of Bury, Roman Catholic Church, Russia, Saint Cecilia, Saint Swithun, Serbia, Sicut Judaeis, Statute of the Jewry, Statutum de Judaismo, Theobald of Cambridge, Thomas of Monmouth, vampires, Walk to Canossa, William of Norwich, Winchester, Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins on September 24, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Roman Eastern Foederati and Arab Monotheism Before Islam

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 July 2025

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This entry was posted in History of Islam and tagged Alexander Severus, amici populi Romani, Arabia Petraea, Arabs, ascetics, Aurelian, Balkans, Battle of Adrianople, Bosra, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Chalcedonian, Christianisation, Christianity, Christians, cives, Constantine, Constantine the Great, Council of Chalcedon, Diocletian, Dumat al-Jandal, Eastern Roman Empire, Elagabalus, Emessa, Ethiopia, Fertile Crescent, foederati, Germanic peoples, Germans, Germany, Ghassanids, God, Gothic War, Goths, Great War, Hegra, heresy, Hijaz, Himyar, holy man, Homs, Ioudaismos, Irfan Shahid, Islam, Jerusalem, Jews, Judaism, Kindites, Lakhmid Kingdom, Lakhmids, Late Antiquity, Levant, Limes Orientalis, limitrophe provinces, loca sancta, Marcus Julius Philippus, Mavia, Mawiyya, Mesopotamia, monastics, monks, Monophysites, Monophysitism, Moses, Nabatean Kingdom, Nabateans, Najran, Negev, Nicene Creed, Oriens, orthodoxy, paganism, pagans, Palaestina, Palestine, Palmyra, Palmyrene Empire, Palmyrenes, Persia, Persian Empire, Philip the Arab, plague, Qaryat al-Faw, Queen of the Tanukh, Qur’an, Rhine, Romaioi, Roman Empire, Roman Republic, Romanisation, Romanitas, Romans, Saint Simeon, Salihids, Sasanians, Semitic people, Severus Alexander, Sinai, Syria, Tanukhids, Theodosius I, Valens, Western Roman Empire, Yemen on July 5, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Was Islam’s Ka’ba Always in Mecca?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 June 2025

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This entry was posted in History of Islam and tagged Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Abbasids, Abbasids Revolution, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Abdallah Ibn al-Zubayr, Abraham, Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam, al-Bayt al-Haram, Al-Bukhari, al-huruf al-muqatta’at, Al-Mahdi, Al-Mansur, al-Masjid al-Haram, Al-Naubakht, Al-Saffah, Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya, Al-Tabari, Amina bint Wahb, Anastasius of Sinai, Anastasius Sinaita, Angel Gabriel, Angel Yahoel, angelology, angels, Apocalypse of Abraham, Arab conquests, Arabia Petraea, asbab al-nuzul, Baghdad, Black Stone, Byzantines, Byzantium, China, Christianity, Christians, Church Fathers, Church of Saint Lot, Constitution of Medina, Copts, Dan Gibson, Doctrina Jacobi, Dome of the Rock, exegesis, Gawr al-Safi, Gawr as-Safi, Gerald Hawting, Ghassanids, gnostic gospels, Gomorrah, Gospel of Basilides, Gospel of James, Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, Hadith, Hagarenes, Hajar al-Aswad, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Prophets, Hijaz, Himyar, House of Wisdom, Huaisheng Mosque, Humayma, Ibn Hisham, Ibn Ishaq, Ibrahim al-Imam, Imam Ali, Imam Husayn, Infancy Gospels, Iran, Ishmaelites, Islam, Islamic Tradition, Israel, Jacob of Edessa, Jews, John bar Penkaye, John of Damascus, John of Sedreh, John the Stylite, John Wansbrough, Jordan, Josephus, Judaism, Kaaba, ka’ba, Khuzestan Chronicle, Khuzistan Chronicle, Kitab al-Amwal, Kitab al-Tarikh wa al-Maghazi, Lakhmids, Late Antiquity, Levant, Lighthouse Mosque, Lot's Cave, Madaba Map, Madaba Mosaic Map, Maqam Ibrahim, Marwah, Mashallah, Masjid al-Qiblatayn, Mecca, Mhaggraye, monks, monotheism, monotheists, Moses, Mosque of the Two Qiblas, Muawiya, muhajirun, Muhammad al-Ibrahim, mushrikun, Najran Massacre, Natil ibn Qays, New Testament, paganism, pagans, Palestine, para-Biblical, Patricia Crone, Persia, Petra, post-Biblical, Prophet Muhammad, Protoevangelium of James, Qibla, Qur’an, Revisionist School of Islamic Studies, Roman Empire, Romans, Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas, Sacred House, Safa, sahaba, Sahifat al-Medina, Saint Lot's Church, Saint Paul, sanctuary, Saracens, Sasanians, Sassanians, Saudi Arabia, Sebeos, sectarian milieu, shari’a, Sirat Rasul Allah, Sodom, Sunna, Syro-Palaestina, Tanakh, Teaching of Jacob, the Balqa, The Book About the Origin of the Blessed Mary and the Childhood of the Saviour, The Sacred City, theology, Timothy I, Tom Holland, Torah, Umayyads, umma, Virgin Mary, Yathrib, Zoroastrianism on June 11, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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