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    HEMA Scholar Awards 2013


    Hi everyone! As we all know HEMA has many different aspects that are all equally important in our shared effort in recreating these forgotten martial arts. Lately, tournaments have received much attention and the top fighters are household names for … Continue reading →

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  • To all HEMA-related business owners


    To all swordsmiths, protection gear manufacturers, equipment retailers, event organizers and other HEMA-related business owners: HROARR is now introducing a discreet and HEMA-specific Ad banner system to help you market your products. The hope is that this will get you … Continue reading →

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  • Post your thoughts on HROARR


    The beauty of posting your texts on HROARR is that we then can have lots of HEMA articles published under various categories, even quite specific ones, where people post their thoughts and research, and all of it is searchable for … Continue reading →

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  • Same as above

    A call to arms!


    From at least as far back as the early to mid 1400s, all the way up until about the French Revolution in 1789, longsword fencers have been practicing with fechtschwerter, or what is today commonly called federschwert, a specific sword type with a … Continue reading →

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  • An open invitation.


    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 →

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Ascham, Roger

RogerAschamToxophilus1545.pdf (1545 AD) 14MB

Ascham_Roger-Toxophilus-STC-839-278_06-p1to70.pdf (1545 AD) 17.4MB

Barwick, Humfrey

Barwick_Humfrey-A_breefe_discourse_concerning_the-STC-1542-3.pdf (1542 AD) 7.7MB

Bourne, William

Bourne_1587.pdf (1587 AD) 4MB

Cotton, Robert

CottonTitusAXXV.pdf (ca 1450 AD) 82kB

Cole, Benjamin

Cole_-_Soldiers_Pocket_Companion.pdf (1746 AD) 5.7MB

Buchanan, John Lanne

Defence of Scot Highlanders.pdf (1794 AD) 6.9MB

Dudley, Robert

Dudley_1586.pdf (1586 AD) 1MB

The King’s Mirror

Speculum_regale__Konungs_skuggsj____Kong.pdf (1250 AD, Norwegian) 7.6MB

kingsmirrorspecu00konuuoft.pdf (English transl.) 75MB

Landgraffen, Ludwigen

266764932.pdf (1651 AD) 224MB

de Loques, Bertrand

Loque_Bertrand_de-Discourses_of_vvarre_and_single-STC-16811-.pdf (1591 AD, transl. by J. Eliot in 1631 AD) 6.8MB

Neyffer, Johann Christoph

Neyffer-Johann-Christoph-Illustrissimi-Wirtembergici-1589.pdf (1589) 5.8MB

Pistofilo, Bonaventura

pistofilo-bonaventura-oplomachia-1621.pdf (1621) 34MB

von Schwerin, Johan Bogislav

274358778.pdf (1665 AD) 224MB

Segar, William

Segar_1602.pdf (1602 AD)16.5MB

von Wallhausen, Johann Jacobi

wallhausen-johann-jacobi-Kriegkunst-zu-Pferd-1616.pdf 64MB

wallhausen-johann-jacobi-Romanische-Kriegskunst-1616.pdf 98MB

Wallhausen-Johann-Jacobi-von-programma-scholae-militaris-1616.pdf 16MB

Wallhausen-Johann-Jacobi-von-Ritterkunst-Darinnen-begriffen-1614.pdf 42MB

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