Interpreting Silver’s times
This post contains my long overdue interpretation of Silver’s concept of true and false times, using the Aristotelian notion of first movers.
This post contains my long overdue interpretation of Silver’s concept of true and false times, using the Aristotelian notion of first movers.
In this post I share a detailed measurement protocol for swords and a measuring sheet that are intended to facilitate the collection of new data.
The accounts of the famous Duel des Mignons in 1578.
An excerpt of Brantôme’s Discours sur les Duels, tracing the origins of the new duelling habits to Naples.
This post is an introduction for a series of contemporary accounts of late 16th century French duels.
In this article, I discuss the widespread principle ‘minimum effort, maximum efficiency’ and how it should be handled with care…
Le manuscrit de Lovino est disponible en ligne !
The Lovino manuscript is now online!
This post contains some discussion of a thought-provoking article: What is intent?
Guillaume Vauthier has compiled and analyzed a great amount of publicly available data on rapiers, and has kindly allowed me to host it here.