Hi everyone! I would like to share a bit of my vision for the new HROARR site. First of all, its purpose is simply to help research, material development and practicing of HEMA. This is done by providing tools, source … Continue reading
Since 2009 I have been working on interpreting the polearms section of Joachim Meÿer’s treatise of 1570 entitled “Gründtliche Beschreibung der Adeligen und Ritterlichen Kunst des Fechtens“. This research has evolved into a regular course in Meÿer quarterstaff at Gothenburg … Continue reading
This site focuses on different aspects of Historical European Martial Arts. It is meant to serve both as a help to active HEMA practitioners and as a source of inspiration for people that are unfamiliar with this form of Martial Arts.
The president is Niklas Mårdby of Gothenburg Historical Fencing School with Carl Ryrberg of Örebro Historical Fencing School as Vice President.
More details to follow.
After 12 years in preparation several French associations and clubs have gathered and managed to create a structure for a French HEMA federation. Continue reading
I just received some club details for a new Norwegian HEMA club located in Oslo. They are called Oslo KDF and can be reached through oslokdf@gmail.com or http://www.communitywalk.com
Hi everyone! I would like to share a bit of my vision for the new HROARR site.
First of all, its purpose is simply to help research, material development and practicing of HEMA. This is done by providing tools, source material, links and info.
Thus far the work has been done mostly by me, with the good support of GHFS, but in the future I hope to expand on several existing collaborations and grow quite a few new ones.
It has occured to me, however, that the HEMA community currently has no common place to gather for connecting, finding news, share research and be inspired by what other people do. True, there are forums and blogs, but they are not quite what I speak of.
So, basically, what I and some other like-minded people are now hoping to be able to do, with your help, is to turn the HROARR site into a mix of a free online HEMA magazine and a research / project tool. A water hole for the HEMA community, if you will…
With the new version of the site comes a lot of new, interesting possibilities, as I can now open up the HROARR site to other researchers and practitioners.
For one thing, I can now add sub-pages for community projects and one is already up, where the GHFS Halben Stangen group will collaborate with anyone interested and share exercises, ideas and interpretations. Anyone can join in and have their own page where they can write their thoughts, post videos/photos etc.
Furthermore, I can also add “writers” and I would like to invite all of you to write reviews and articles and have them published on HROARR. Since I, from a legal standpoint, am the responsible publisher, I will act as editor. Copyrights to the material will of course remain with the original authors. And you will always be able to have your material removed or updated. Furthermore, your interpretative material, transcriptions and translations can be added to the searchable manual database, if you so wish.
Also, I have added a workshops/instructors list, so if you are interested in teaching at HEMA events, then it is a good place to list yourself. Several instructors and workshops have already been listed and more are coming in.
I am currently working on adding all stored manuals into a manual database where you can search for authors, dates, weapons etc. Each manual will also be accompanied by a short text and I thank Michael Chidester and Ben Michels for generously sharing info from Wiktenauer. The two first manuals that have been uploaded are Joachim Meÿer’s 1560 and 1570 treatises. There’s a lot more to come and with time I think the database will prove to be useful.
That’s some of the stuff that’s up right now, and I have more plans for further improvements that I will reveal later.
So again, I welcome you to join in here!
Roger Norling
Quarterstaff Instructor
Gothenburg Historical Fencing School.
Just some brief reflections on images from Chronicon Helvetiae by Christoph Silberysen, dated to 1576, currently kept in the Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek in Aarau, Switzerland. Continue reading
Here’s a interesting post on the front page of the Danish Royal Library. Amongst other things, the research of well-known HEMA-researcher and curator Claus Sørensen is presented and the whole news post is illustrated by an image from Talhoffer’s “Thott” treatise, located in the the Danish Royal Library.
The 640 page yearbook entitled Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Bind 50, 2011 in which all this research is presented in can be bought for 500 Danish Crowns. Purchase details are provided in the news article.
If you are not so fluent in Danish, here is a Google Translation.
Welcome to the brand new site for HROARR. There are literally tons of interesting material to dive into and we have only begun to scratch at the surface.
If you wish to contribute with any material, then please let me know.
Furthermore, please accept my apologies for broken links! The news archive in particular will contain many broken links and links leading to the old site due to migrating the site from the old server and platform to a new. If you find any in articles and link pages, please let me know. I appreciate any help.
Gothenburg Historical Fencing School
