Who am I to be writing this blog post? Nobody. I’m sure there are a thousand people out there who would do it better. But a friend of mine asked me, not them, so here we go. First, I’ll … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2018
The last of the Bolognese: Senese’s The True Handling of the Sword, yours free.
I am delighted to announce that the National Fencing Museum's copy of Alessandro Senese's rapier treatise from 1660 is now available to download from here. The download includes a zip file of edited … [Read more...]
Fiore scholars, you must have this book. A review of Flowers of Battle
Last year my friends at Freelance Academy Press boldly crowdfunded a publishing project: reproducing in facsimile and translation all four of the extant Fiore manuscripts. I supported the campaign, of … [Read more...]
Freedom to Strike: a lengthy discussion of largo and stretto
Ultra-geeky sword post alert: this is a lengthy and detailed discussion of some really specific terms from Fiore. Expect pedantry and nit-pickery, in the service of a definition of terms which has … [Read more...]
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is deliberately saying one thing and doing another. Pretending to be something you are not, or pretending to believe something that you do not. Lecturing others on family values while … [Read more...]