Now for most of you following this site, Hans Talhoffer should be someone one you know. Perhaps my favourite author of this period, Talhoffer has blessed us with some of the best imagery and manuals on medieval swordmanship.And it must be said, some of the wackiest too! Have you seen those duelling shields? and duelling […]
Just reading the back cover of this book had my jaw dropping. I haven’t heard to these guys before. But sounded like a cross between ninjas and something out of Assassins creed.What is interesting is that in a time of political and religious upheaval, this organisation seemingly didn’t pick sides and would assassinate anyone. They […]
This covers looks at the actual outer reaches of the Roman Empire and helps us to define the frontiers of Empire. It still staggers me how vast the Roman Empire was.Living in East Kent, we are surrounded by Roman footprints, Canterbury, Reculver and Richborough…But what about right out there on the edge of empire? This […]
While the Romans had conquered the south of the Danube, north of the Danube they had a new enemy, the Dacian. And this is where this book gets really interesting for me, as a sword geek, as now the Romans come face to face with the Dacian falx.The Danube frontier was always troublesome for Rome, […]
