{"id":3204,"date":"2026-03-31T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:01:36","slug":"rapier-hilt-archetypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/rapier-hilt-archetypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapier hilts archetypes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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This has been long in the making, it is finally out: my first peer-reviewed publication related to HEMA!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le Chevalier, V. (2026). Rapier hilts archetypes. Acta Periodica Duellatorum<\/em>, 13<\/em>(1). <\/a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.36950\/apd-2026-001<\/a> (direct link to PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A.V.B. Norman\u2019s typology of hilts currently serves as the standard for the classification of rapiers. However, its flat structure and minutious granularity make it inconvenient for memorization and discussion. This work proposes a restructuration of Norman\u2019s extensive typology into fewer archetypes that renders it less cumbersome to use and follows the functional developments of complex hilts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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One of the figures in the article, showing a synthetic view of all outer guards archetypes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I have started this in early 2020, printing little cut-out images of each hilt type in Norman and seeing if I could group them in some way. Eventually, it all developed into this article. I doubt it will be the final word on rapier hilt typology, but I hope it will be useful to some people, at least in approaching Norman’s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A link to my article in Acta Periodica Duellatorum about rapier hilt typology, based on A.V.B Norman’s book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[175,172,74,173,174,119,176],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weapon-design","tag-acta-periodica-duellatorum","tag-archetype","tag-hilt","tag-norman","tag-oakeshott","tag-rapier","tag-typology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.subcaelo.net\/ensis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}