[Artemisia] Looking for a book
ravenmacleod at comcast.net
ravenmacleod at comcast.net
Fri Mar 7 11:44:17 CST 2008
Does anyong have a copy of "The service of Ladies" by Ulrich Von Liechenstein?
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Raven MacLeod
Esquire
En fides abunde virtus, en virtus abunde fides.
If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. --Michelangelo
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From: "Justin" <justinbidel at comcast.net>
> >
> > Does anyone know of one or several rapier training
> > sites? my student is very interested is studying
> > different techniques on line if she can.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Lady Sybyll
> >
>
> I don't think I'm going to make the practicum, but you should definately go
> if you can. Lots of good information and networking opportunities for
> sword-geeks (be prepared to hurt in places you didn't know you had muscles,
> there'll be lots of drill).
>
> Studying on line is hard, but it's a good way to get a decent overview of
> whats out there. As mentioned, the ARMA (www.thehaca.com) site has partial
> and complete copies of several period rapier texts on line. www.AEMMA.org
> has a more complete library, but there's a yearly fee for subscription.
> www.tattershall.org has lotsa good stuff too, some papers in addition to
> pdf's of manuals. I didn't see anybody mention www.salvatorfabris.com yet -
> no translations, but some excellent papers, and a neat little forum. More
> original research at http://www.drizzle.com/~celyn/jherek/archive.html.
> I'll reiterate, studying on line is hard, and most of that won't do a new
> scholar much good at all in practical terms. For something that *will*
> help... I'll second the recommendation for William Wilsons (Baron Gwyllym ap
> Owain, OP, OL) "Arte of Defense" - excellent book for a newer student
> interested in period rapier, Italian style. I have an extra copy floating
> around somewhere if you'd like to borrow it for a bit.
>
> As the weather turns, I'm going to be restarting our study group in the Salt
> Lake area, which focuses on rapier a la Capo Ferro and C&T of the Dardi
> persuasion, although we get around the other masters a bit *g*, lemme know
> if you and your student are interested. Ditto for everybody else, btw, come
> play!
>
>
> Justin
>
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