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Continue readingOur comrades Manuel Valle Ortiz and Ton Puey were invited by HEMA-Portugal to give a lecture and a practical lesson at the annual meeting of the Portuguese federation of western martial arts that took place on 4, 5 and 6 November in Lisbon. Taking advantage of the trip, they made several visits to institutions with which AGEA Editora collaborates in the recovery of historical treaties of Portuguese fencing. Here follows a small chronicle of this…
Continue readingUses & customs in Iberian fencing salles of the sixteen and seventeenth centuries: safety regulations and equipment; traditions, rituals & salutes; scoring in tournaments; teacher’s wages and teaching methods.
Continue readingToday, we fix History! We are testing and printing dust jackets for some of our earlier titles, from a time where such a thing hadn’t been invented (if we didn’t do it, it didn’t exist, ok?) and books would thus endure dirt and grime unprotected. But not anymore! Since «Oplosophia» (for which only a few test jackets were produced) we have been issuing our «Classical» books with a transparent dust jacket printed with a motiff…
Continue readingThis brief article describes the history of Verdadeira Destreza in Portugal between the XVI and XVIII centuries. It presents the fencing scene as it probably was at the time, sets context for the apparition of Verdadeira Destreza and its eventual displacement of the older common fencing style and lists and describes the known sources.
Continue readingOur fellow Ton Puey in his school Academia da Espada, is doing extensive work of theoretical and practical research in the regras (lit. «rules», set chains of actions) for the iberian montante two-handed sword. In this effort, he recorded here a first draft of his interpretation of the 32 rules (16 single and 16 composite) that master Diogo Gomez de Figueiredo left written in his Memorial da Prattica do Montante. Do not miss the opportunity…
Continue readingThis article gathers a series of notes written while studying the sources on the Iberian montante sword of the late XV century and following centuries. The extant sources are listed and analysed. Different approaches to teaching this weapon’s handling are described, stressing those who can provide a context for its use.
Continue readingWe reproduce here an excerpt from the 2009 article «Un texto de Esgrima Española del Siglo XVI» which Manuel Valle Ortiz and Mary Dill Curtis wrote for number 7 of the Materiales para la Historia del Deporte publication, from the Pablo de Olavide University in Sevilla.
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