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Academia Leontes: this is how Byzantines fought

Georgios Georgas is an instructor of historical martial arts in the Academy of historical European Martial Arts “Leontes” – club focused on late Byzantine and post-Byzantine period of history but they also study and practice ancient, medieval, renaissance and modern swordsmanship. “As far I remember myself, I grew up with the epics stories and poems…

Knight’s Weekly

What’s up in Middle Ages Reenactment Upcoming events:  England’s Medieval Festival Wojna Wieków 2019 Old Sarum Battle of Kenilworth Castle Słowianie i Templariusze. XIII Festyn Historyczny Obóz w Nowicach – 2019 Tournoi des Combes Festival médiéval Adélaïde et ses troubadours org Mairie Burlats Rassemblement Multi Epoques Herbéviller Loughrea Medieval Festival Just Out Festival Horsens Middelalderfestival…

19th Century Weekly

What’s up in Reenactment of 1789-1914 Upcoming events:  Confederate Living History Weekend at the Antietam National Battlefield Revolution on the Ohio Frontier Civil War Living History Reenactment at Fort Adams Life on Campaign, Summer Living History at Bentonville Battlefield Artillery Demonstrations at the Petersburg National Battlefield Event report: Galesburg Heritage Days 2019 Napoleonic Wars in…

The Late Medieval International System by Andrew Latham

The prevailing view has been the Middle Ages were an era of “feudal heteronomy”, radically distinct from the early modern international system that superseded it sometime between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries.  According to this view, the late medieval order was not an international system, properly understood, for the simple reason that it did not…

Horse Armour in the Medieval Islamic Middle East

The earliest widespread use of horse armour appears to have been in Inner Asia, perhaps more specifically in Khwarazm. Thereafter horse armour became notably characteristic of Central and Inner Asia, not only amongst nomadic tribes but also amongst settled peoples such as the Turkish Uighurs of what is now called the Chinese autonomous region of…

Knight’s Weekly

What’s up in Middle Ages Reenactment Upcoming events:  Kening Striid 2019 Médiévales de Rochefort en terre 2019 Bosworth Medieval Festival Templariada 2019 Camp off Medievalsace 2019 XX Jarmark i Turniej Rycerski na Zamku Chudów Fête médiévale de Puycelsi 2019 Participe au Festival Médiéval Event report: Battle for the Kornicz’s Watchtower Mercer County Fair with jousting…

Mini golf and slides in medieval cathedral in Britain

This summer, visitors to some of England’s most imposing and ancient cathedrals will find carnival rides, a mini golf course, a lunar landscape and a lifelike model of the Earth dangling from the ceiling. Inside Norwich Cathedral in the east of England, a colorful, 55-foot-tall slide — known as a helter skelter — winds past…