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Knight’s Fall Tournament 2022
The Heavy Armoured Combat Sports Association, (HACSA), is a National Federation of Canadian Armoured Combat teams. This is HACSA's first Buhurt League event! Come see us in action!
Skt Pattys Day HEMA Gathering 2022
FORÅRSSAMLINGEN er en mulighed for nye og gamle at komme hinanden ved, slå lidt rundt og måske lære lidt nyt.
Texas Sword Retreat 2022
A Historical European Martial Arts Workshop event that looks to bring great instructors together to teach and share their fencing experiences from a variety of historical fencing systems.
Tanya Bentham on Medieval Embroidery & the Creation of Opus Anglicanum
Tanya interprets contemporary subjects into expressions of historical embroidery with a delightful sense of fun, adding such details as a goat with a bow tie and a Cadbury cream egg.
The Medieval Fair of Norman 2022
The Medieval Fair of Norman returns in all it's glory at Reaves Park in Norman, Oklahoma on April 1, 2 & 3, 2022!
Gran Festival Medieval Mty 2022
Regresa Gran Festival Medieval Mty en su edición No.8 con invitado especial internacional de la serie #GOT "LA MONTAÑA" ven con toda tu familia a Cintermex.
Out with the old, in with the new!
The time to say goodbye to 2021 and to welcome in 2022 is here! The time has come to attend parties, to eat special New Year’s foods, singing, dancing and general reverie to usher out the old and to ring in the new. But where do these festivities originate from? From time immemorial, various civilizations around the world have been celebrating the start of the new year, typically having the first day of the new year align to an agricultural or astronomical event. In Europe though, most modern western New Year’s festivities start on the eve of December 31, the last day of the Gregorian calendar, and continue into the early hours of January 1 (New Year’s Day). However, the official date for the turning of the year has differed wildly in the past. But why the 1st of January? One of the earlie...
Subterranean Realms: Subterranean & Rock Cut Structures in Ancient & Medieval Times
We know who built some of these astonishing and mysterious structures, but others were built by unknown civilizations in prehistory for reasons that are debated among researchers. Some subterranean structures may have been built for initiation ceremonies or perhaps for acoustic reasons, or both.
Medieval Manuscript Workshop
As medieval combat students, we are always referring to the manuscripts of the medieval period, but how were they actually made and how long did it take to create a page or image?
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity & Infectious Disease
For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since common response to the threat was exclusion—quarantining the sick or keeping them out. But the unprecedented hygiene and medical revolutions of the past two centuries have allowed humanity to free itself from the hold of epidemic cycles—resulting in an urbanized, globalized, and unimaginably wealthy world.
Renaissance Combat: Jörg Wilhalm’s Fightbook, 1522-1523
Longsword instructor Dierk Hagedorn brings the work of one of the most prolific authors of 16th century fight books to a modern audience for the first time.
Medieval Christianity: A New History
This new narrative history of medieval Christianity, spanning the period 500 to 1500 CE, attempts to integrate what is familiar to readers with new themes and narratives.
