linkage - most fencing, one not
Mar. 12th, 2008 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonCompare and contrast: Martial arts take a Western turn (check out the list of schools in the sidebar!) and King Arthur’s court meets Prince George’s County (with extra pictures). Taken together these two articles help explain the differences between Western Martial Arts (WMA) and SCA fighting - principally that the former focuses on historical accuracy and the latter is just one part of a wider interest in all things medieval (though the SCA is building a place for historic fencing research in their Arts and Sciences section).
Only beef - WMA didn't "[die] out in Europe in the 1600s" - it just evolved into dueling (rather than martial) weapons, and then into sport fencing.
Related: the Association for Historical Fencing's Historical Fencing Translation Project, 'cos those old texts aren't going to translate themselves!
Finally, Elizabeth I's New Year's Gifts rolls website - not fencing related at all, but certainly historic, it's more useful for costuming/16th century luxury goods info.
Only beef - WMA didn't "[die] out in Europe in the 1600s" - it just evolved into dueling (rather than martial) weapons, and then into sport fencing.
Related: the Association for Historical Fencing's Historical Fencing Translation Project, 'cos those old texts aren't going to translate themselves!
Finally, Elizabeth I's New Year's Gifts rolls website - not fencing related at all, but certainly historic, it's more useful for costuming/16th century luxury goods info.
