On the occasion of the International Federation of Historical European Martial Arts’s ninth...
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Some fantastic news. Dr. Jeffrey L. Forgeng, the man behind some very good translations, including...
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Renowned English HEMA instructor Tea Kew recently launched a project to explore the teachings in...
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Long overdue here is a really good article on teaching methodology for HEMA by the great Maciej...
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Finally, after a lot of hard work by the jury, and some delays in the organisation, we are...
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Right now, Amazon has the quite well-received book Self-Defense for Gentlemen and Ladies: A...
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In an attempt at boosting both the study and the making of HEMA videos, HROARR from now on will have numerous pages with videos for you to study. You can find them all under the Study section, under Study Videos.
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Long in the works after many years of dedicated work on the topic, renowned US HEMA instructor...
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Long overdue I’ve finally posted my booklet on the Meyer quarterstaff, a weapon also used to...
Read MoreChris Slee has just published a translation of Henry de Sainct-Didier’s “Secrets of the Sword Alone”. You can find out how to buy it...
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Here’s a cool new HEMA Kickstarter project to consider. Adelheid Zimmerman has launched a...
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Read MoreJust to remind you of the beauty of one of the few still living European martial arts; Portuguese Jogo do Pau. If you ever get a chance to try it then take it. It is well worth...
Read MoreAs you may have suspected, running Wiktenauer isn’t free. While neither I nor sysadmin Christian receive any compensation for our efforts, the costs associated with hosting Wiktenauer come to about $500 a year. For the...
Read MoreNicoletto Giganti is one of the most celebrated Italian fencing masters of the 17th century. His widely-acclaimed treatise of 1606 promised a second work, which however was long considered lost or never to have been written....
Read MoreDesigning a sword of mid 14th century style using a system of geometric drawing that is inspired by surviving plans of medieval gothic architecture. Please visit my site at peterjohnsson.com for more information about this...
Read MoreGreat news for students of Joachim Meyer and Leküchner, from Dr. Jeffrey L. Forgeng, posted on the Reprint Forgeng’s “The Art of Combat” Facebook group. “I’m happy to be able to report some updates...
Read MoreThis is a pretty damn exciting find! Eric Wiggins discovered an illustration depicting the hanging of 16th cent martial arts enthusiast and fechtbuch collector Paul Hektor Mair and Ben Floyd tracked down a colour version of...
Read MoreBeing the Jogo do Pau instructor with the closest international ties to the HEMA community, I have learned a lot from this interaction, while also getting a better grasp of how much Jogo do Pau can be of use to HEMA interpreters...
Read MoreLooking for something good to read about a living form of traditional European Martial Arts? Well here’s a good tip for you: Luis Preto is just releasing his 2nd edition of his first book on Portuguese staff fencing Jogo...
Read MoreHROARR now has its own ‘Pinterest’-style page called the HEMAtrix. Each image is gathered from the article material and links directly to its article. A fun, random and interesting new way of browsing the HROARR...
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The beauty of posting your texts on HROARR is that we then can have lots of HEMA articles...
Read MoreAfter a long and excited waiting, Kevin Maurer has finally managed to deliver a great gift on the last day of the year; a complete translation of Meyer’s von Solms treatise, dated to ca 1560. Kevin has been working on this...
Read MoreVery nicely produced video on footwork, from La Sala delle...
Read MoreI found these exercises interesting and will be adding some of this to what we already do in our training...
Read MoreToday I thought I would share a little “secret”. In Saarbrucken, Germany there is this great little bookbindery called Fines Mundi that produces prints of antique books with traditional binding and in many...
Read More“… Esfinges, a [Facebook] group recently started by Ruth Garcia Navarro and Perica Lòpez for women in HEMA. We aim to unite the ones we’ve got around the world and encourage more women to take up the art. Come...
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From at least as far back as the early to mid 1400s, all the way up until about the French...
Read MoreThis project will collect all of Joachim Meyer’s personal advice on fighting, stripping away all techniques instead focusing on fighting principles, tactics and strategies. Anyone is welcome to join us in this project. The...
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Joachim Koppen was a Phil. and Med. Doctor in Magdeburg who wrote this treatise after having been...
Read MoreWe just added a rather unique new, but uncompleted treatise to our database. This time it is the Codex Guelf 83.4 August 8°, entitled “Das ander Theil des newen kunstreichen Fechtbuches, darin alle fürnembste...
Read MoreHi everyone! I’m proud to announce a new book about the famous I.33 Manuscript. Authors: Andrea Morini, Riccardo Rudilosso and Federica Giordani, of Sala d’Arme Achille Marozzo, published by “il...
Read MoreThe Royal Armouries have teamed up with specialist publishers of military manuscripts Extraordinary Editions to produce a full-size facsimile of the manuscript in a limited edition. Each copy of the manuscript will come complete...
Read MoreNew book: La Scherma (The Art of Fencing) by Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri (1640) Translated by Caroline Stewart, Phil Marshall and Piermarco Terminiello. Get it at the site of The School of the Sword.
Read MoreHere’s a interesting post on the front page of the Danish Royal Library. Amongst other things, the research of well-known HEMA-researcher and curator Claus Sørensen is presented and the whole news post is...
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Fighters Against Racism
Acta Periodica Duellatorum