Last night, Rami and I got together and played our first games with the proper printed Patron Deck and Liechtenauer expansion pack. This was lots of fun, and very exciting for us to see the project … [Read more...]
Creating a form for the Pollax
We are in the middle of our annual monster seminar, the Fiore Extravaganza. We began with a day of pollax training from the medieval French manuscript Jeu de la Hache, taught by Lois Forster. Lois … [Read more...]
Being wrong can lead to wonderful things
Let me tell you a story about how the Internet is supposed to work. It’s also about collaborating on research, and finding truth. A short while ago, a student of mine, Kliment Yanev, came up with … [Read more...]
Blinded by Botany: medieval malice!
[There is some cool stuff in this post, but the actual identification of the famed titmallo is wrong: full story here! GW] One of my favourite passages in Il Fior di Battaglia is this, where Fiore … [Read more...]