News.

photo by Cecilia Burman

Dec 14th 2011

Christmas goodies!

Finally, we have been given access to Bonaventura Pistofilo's treatise on pike, halberd and arquebusier, entitled "Oplomachia". You can download it here.

Nov 18th 2011

For the first time: Scans of Theodori Verolini!

Herzog August Bibliothek has kindly provided the GHFS with scans of Theodori Verolini's Meyer and Petter-inspired manual of 1679 and allowed Hroarr to distribute these files as well.

Oct 27th 2011

Reprint translation of Joachim Meyer!

Join our Facebook group which we initiated to encourage the publisher to make a second print of the out-of-stock Forgeng-translation of Joachim Meyer's 1570 manual!

Sep 13th 2011

Permission from Biblioteka Jagiellonska.

The Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Krakow, Poland, has just given their approval for Hroarr to distribute HEMA material such as their Gladiatoria manuscript MS Germ.Quart.16

Sep 10th 2011

New review up

This time a review of Pavel Moc's Lichtenauer steel Longsword

Sep 10th 2011

Equipment list revised

All dead links have been removed from the equipment list and new items have been added

Aug 2nd 2011

New review up

This time a review of the Knightshop Synthetic Longsword - Pro-Line Extreme

July 6th 2011

Permission from Dresden SUB

The Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek in Dresden has just given their approval for Hroarr to distribute HEMA material such as their Paul Hektor Mair manuscript C.93

June 20th 2011

Meyers 1560 manuscript online again

The University library of Lund has just given their approval for Hroarr to distribute Joachim Meyer's 1560 manuscript, and as a result it is back online again.

June 20th 2011

Mair's Vienna manuscript online again

The Österreichische Nationalbibliothek has just given their approval for Hroarr to distribute Mair's Vienna manuscript, Cod.Cod. 10825/10826, and as a result it is back online again.

May 15th 2011

New database in the works

Long overdue, work is finally being done to open up a treatise-database with more info on the authors, interpretors, translators etc. Appologies for taking so long to get it done.

Apr 19th 2011

New article

The Secret Fechtbuch of the Little Fuggers

Apr 19th 2011

New translation of Talhoffer 1443

Tyrone Artur Budzin has recently published his document with a translation of the Talhoffer Gotha Codex from 1443. He has also sent updates to his old documents on Pascha and Petter which are now available in the manuscripts section

Mar 11th 2011

New fascinating book depicting university fencing!

Neyffer's book on campus life in Wurttemberg of 1589.

Feb 10th 2011

BRAND-SPANKING NEW!

Reviews of sparring swords and seven new articles

Jan 25 2011

New article up

An introduction to a review series of a whole lot of sparring swords has been added to the review section.

Jan 25 2011

1926 German article...

"Deutsche Fechtkunst der 16 Jahrhundert" by Prof. Dr. Panconcelli Calzia has been added.

Jan 20 2011

Hroarr is now on Facebook.

Updates to the site will be published there so all friends instantly are briefed. Follow the link and add Hroarr as a friend.

Jan 20 2011

Book 2 of Paulus Hector Mair's

"De Arte Ahtletica" has been added.

Jan 21 2011

New url for LUTEL

Due to internal conflicts LUTEL has a new url to their web site.

Jan 17 2011

Several HEMA associations

have been added to the Organisations & Clubs page.

Jan 10 2011

The first book of Paulus Hector Mair's...

"Arte Athletica" from 1542 has been added to the manuscript section.

Jan 05 2011

Seven new manuscripts uploaded.

Four pdf's with manuscripts related to Joerg Wilhalm have been uploaded. Also pdf's of Lekuchner Cgm 582, Paulus Kal Cgm 1507 and the anonymous Codex 1.6.2.4 have been uploaded to the manuscript section.

Jan 04 2011

Talhoffer Manuscript of 1443 (Gothaer Codex) uploaded.

The manuscript section now contains the Talhofer manuscript "Gothaer Codex" of 1443

Jan 04 2011

Events list updated

The list have been updated with a bunch of upcoming, exciting HEMA events.

Nov 25 2010

Clubs list updated

The lists have been updated with 50+ clubs worldwide. The US is still awaiting moderation.

Nov 03 2010

New equipment category:

HEMA Specific protective gear

Oct 26 2010

New page

for Blogs added.

Oct 26 2010

The HEMA Alliance Calendar of Events

has been added to the events list at the bottom of the front page.

Oct 26 2010

Book list

updated with lots of new titles.

Oct 26 2010

Joachim Meyer's

1570 manuscript added.

Oct 26 2010

Missing pages

p47-48 of 'Palaestra Svecana' uploaded.

Oct 26 2010

Pt. 1 of Paulus Hector Mair's

1550 manuscript Mscr.Dresd.C.93 has been made available by the Dresden Library 90.9MB

Oct 26 2010

New manuscript:

Sebastian Heusler - New kunstlich Fectbuch... of 1626

Oct 26 2010

New Polearms study board

Everyone is encouraged to join this board and learn about the wonderful world of really long sticks

Oct 26 2010

Paulus Hector Mair

Ringen images with belt and clothes grabbing

Oct 26 2010

New book:

Camillo Agrippa translated in hardcover.

Oct 26 2010

New copy:

Johann Georg Pascha's Kurtze Anleitung... of 1660

Oct 26 2010

New translation:

Nicolaes Petter's Clear Education of 1674

Oct 26 2010

New group:

Trnavsky sermiarsky cech

Oct 26 2010

The Western Martial Arts Coalition

WMAC is now officially launched.

Oct 26 2010

New translation

of Diogo Gomes de Figueiredo's Iberian longsword manuscript of 1651: 'Memorial of the practice of the Montante'. Translated by Eric Myers and Steve Hick 259KB

Oct 26 2010

For the First time:

The complete fencing manual of King Karl XII of Sweden - Palaestra Svecana 30 M

Oct 26 2010

Great web documentary

on Renaissance Martial Arts

Oct 26 2010

New club

in Abdingon, Virginia, USA

Oct 26 2010

New club added

for Slovakia: Zoldnieri, based in Bratislav

Oct 26 2010

Two new study groups:

one in Victoria BC, Canada and one in Northern Nevada, USA

Oct 26 2010

New book

with translation of Fiore's 'Fior di Battaglia' by Tom Leoni

Oct 26 2010

New group:

ARMA Columbus Ohio - email

Oct 26 2010

New group:

Selohaarr - Anchorage, Alaska

Oct 26 2010

Due to internal conflicts

within ARMA six study groups are no longer members of ARMA. The club list has been revised accordingly.

Oct 26 2010

Ravignat's article

on Fiore spear added

Oct 26 2010

Andreas Paurnfeindt

French hn236 manuscript added

Oct 26 2010

Andreas Paurnfeindt

flipped manuscript added

Oct 26 2010

King's Mirror

Manuscript has been added

Oct 26 2010

New wrestling manual

Art_of_Wrestling.pdf

Oct 26 2010

25 new manuscripts

added in different categorie

Oct 26 2010

New book:

How to wrestle - Instructions of Frank A. Gotch

Oct 26 2010

New book:

The Gladiatoria Fechtbuch - Hugh Knight

Supported by Gothenburg Historical Fencing School

Important notice!

In an attempt to build a stronger case for the HEMA community when speaking to manufacturers of protective gear and sparring swords, media, and other Martial Arts disciplines, I have initiated a survey to calculate the numbers of Hema practitioners all over the world.

The hope is that we some day can have fencing masks and gloves that are designed for our specific purposes. In other words improve on the gear we already are using.

Judging from the fact that all Fencing Equipment manufacturers see enough reason to produce coaching gear to a rather small target group, we ought to be able to convince them of a market opportunity here. Just recently Allstar has actually begun producing some equipment for our specific purposes. Which is quite exciting.

The current results can be found here: The Great Big Global Hema Census

If your club has no numbers attached to it, or if your club isn't even listed, then please don't hesitate to contact me.


editors note: It's quite exciting to see that the Hroarr site now has had visitors from 58 countries, including:

Australia, Austria, Belarus Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland Italy, Japan, Jordan, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Phillipines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States and Urugay.

I'm glad you're all here!

Please remember to spread the link and help in contributing with good material!