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If you want to follow along at home
Jun. 14th, 2014 10:22 pmMany Thursdays my wife and I are getting together with at least one other person who does historical European sword fighting and looking over the Liancour sword fighting manual from 1692.
If you’re interested, the original can be found in French on line for free at:
http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/lord/pdfs/Liancour_1692.pdf
And, as none of our group knows French, we are using an English translation from here:
http://www.sirwilliamhope.org/Library/Liancour/
So far we’ve gotten through chapter 4. The only real insight we have so far is on the first set of drawings we think #4 and #5 may be reversed.
My goal is to add some of this material to what Phoenix Swords does at shows. But, anyone can do it for any reason. Right?
If you’re interested, the original can be found in French on line for free at:
http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/lord/pdfs/Liancour_1692.pdf
And, as none of our group knows French, we are using an English translation from here:
http://www.sirwilliamhope.org/Library/Liancour/
So far we’ve gotten through chapter 4. The only real insight we have so far is on the first set of drawings we think #4 and #5 may be reversed.
My goal is to add some of this material to what Phoenix Swords does at shows. But, anyone can do it for any reason. Right?
Drop in sword research
May. 29th, 2014 10:38 pmWe were supposed to go over to a friends house tonight and research the Liancour sword manual from 1692. (On line free here: http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/lord/pdfs/Liancour_1692.pdf Translations can be found various places around the internet if you're interested. But, this one has the pictures.)
But, she was off at a city planning meeting and running late. Her son let us in, so we sat around her dining room for an hour going through the manual while her son was upstairs getting ready for his 19th century dance.
It was a bit strange to me to be left alone in someone else's house to do sword research. Granted, we've known them for many years and done a lot of sword research together. But, still a bit strange.
When she got out of her meeting we did go though the first 3 chapters of the manual. Next week, we'll start #4.
Hopefully it will go a bit smother next time...
But, she was off at a city planning meeting and running late. Her son let us in, so we sat around her dining room for an hour going through the manual while her son was upstairs getting ready for his 19th century dance.
It was a bit strange to me to be left alone in someone else's house to do sword research. Granted, we've known them for many years and done a lot of sword research together. But, still a bit strange.
When she got out of her meeting we did go though the first 3 chapters of the manual. Next week, we'll start #4.
Hopefully it will go a bit smother next time...
