About the author:
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Jean Chandler
Jean Henri Chandler has studied historical fencing for... a long time. He co-founded the fencing group SDA NOLA with Lenny Zimmermann in 2004 in New Orleans and has taught fencing as an instructor since 2008. Jean has taught longsword fencing at events in 2011 and 2012 and is active in the competition circuit, fencing in 17 tournaments since 2010. In 2012 Jean placed third in open longsword at the Fechtschule America tournament in Houston.
Jean is an amateur researcher with a special interest in the late medieval Baltic and the context of historical fencing. Since 2012 he has given 11 lectures on the historical context of world of the fencing masters at the BSG / IGX fencing event in Danvers, Ma, at the Higgins Armoury in Worcester, Ma, at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and most recently at HEMAC Dijon in France and at the Purplheart Open in Houston, both in 2019. He published three research papers in the Acta Periodica Duellatorum and one in the Swiss Academy of Science and the University of Bern's “Martial Culture in Medieval Towns” Blog.
In 2016 Jean won the HROARR Scholar of the year award for "Best Rookie Scholar".
Jean completed The Codex Guide to the Medieval Baltic which is now available in print, and can be found at https://www.codexintegrum.com/codex-guide-to-the-medieval-baltic-volume-i/