A Practical Guide for Attendees What are Multi Instructor Events? A multi-instructor event brings together practitioners from different clubs, lineages, and interpretive traditions for a concentrated period of shared training — typically one to three days. Attendees move between sessions taught by different instructors, each bringing their own source material, interpretive approach, and teaching style. […]
This article arose after my last trip to Munich where I found a helm labelled as a helm for the Joust of Peace. I then found a similar helm in the Kaiserberg Museum in Nuremberg. Pictures below. Reading the text and researching this, it is amazing to me how this is very much like our […]
In the urban centres of 16th century southern Germany, fencing was conceived not merely as a physical skill but as a public performance of honour, discipline, and civic identity. Public fencing contests, known as Fechtschulen, were regulated events staged before spectators and governed by social expectations that extended well beyond technical proficiency. Within this performative […]
If you’ve ever wondered what everyday life in a medieval English town actually felt like – the noise, the smells, the chaos, the rules, the fun – Kathryn Warner’s Life in the Medieval Town is an absolute treat. Warner has this brilliant way of dropping you right into the streets of the 13th and 14th […]
