Welcome to HistoricalFencing.org
HistoricalFencing.org is a nexus of several distinct but associated entities. It was created by, and is maintained by, Ken Mondschein (who is, among other things, a Ph.D student in medieval history at Fordham University, a fencing historian and student at the Martinez Academy of Arms) as a low-bandwidth, high-content site on historical fencing. The other folks involved are Paul Macdonald (Macdonald Academy of Arms and Macdonald Armouries) and Bob Brooks (Hotspur School of Defense).
Technical issues? Comments? Click here to e-mail Ken Mondschein.
News of our Activities. . .
Also coming... whenever: Ken's Agrippa translation and anthology of fencing history!
September '07: Pics from the Sands Point Medieval Festival!
June '07: How a Grad Student Shall be Armed!
Spring '07: Sessions at RSA and Kalamazoo.
20 October, 2005: Ken presented on Agrippa at the 16th Century Society Conference.
7-9 April 2005: Session with Sydney Anglo at Renaissance Society of America conference in Cambridge, England.
29 April 2004: Pics from Ken's trip to Edinburgh and the 2004 FISAS meeting!
Hosted Pages
Ken's Fencing Library
Some instruction on How Not to Fence (Warning: the file is almost 600 KB!)
Outside Links
Jared Kirby's fencing original editions and facsimiles
The Martinez Academy of Arms, where Ken is a student
The Association for Historical Fencing
Maestro Andrea Lupo Sinclair's Federazione Italiana Scherma Antica e Storica (FISAS)
Classical Fencing Ireland (in Limerick)
Non-Fencing
Ken's not-very-updated Web 'zine, CorporateMofo.com
Ken's book, A History of Single Life
(The spiffy background image on this page is the Green Man from Rosslyn Chapel. Ken took it with his digital camera when he was visiting Paul in Edinburgh in 2002.)