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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"New" source just dropped - what appears to be a 17th century copy of GA Lovino manuscript illustrations, bought and digitized by the French #HEMA federation through the PALAS project. www.ffamhe.fr/archives/5097

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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Mathias, a fellow #HEMA practitioner, is lauching an app for a second-hand marketplace for living history enthusiasts (HEMA, Reeactement, Buhurt etc.). You can check his project here -

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Histoka - La marketplace de l'Histoire vivante

Histoka est la marketplace française dédiée à l'Histoire vivante, aux AMHE, au béhourd, à la reconstitution historique et à l'artisanat du patrimoine.

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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Flashback to 13 years ago - I was involved in the filming of a #HEMA documentary with De Taille et d'Estoc in #Dijon. The whole video is now available on Tigre film youtube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvud...

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Welcome to Italia & France - Medieval fencing

YouTube video by Tigre Film

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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Il y a corrélation - ce qui n'est pas démontré c'est le lien causal. Et l'occasion de ressortir ce vieux favori : www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...

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Spurious Correlations

Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables.

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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Back from a short week of Holidays. Had the pleasure to meet with my old clubmates in Montreal and Sherbrooke - keeping #HEMA alive and well in Quebec.

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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Je pense que c'est bien la première fois que je vois regretter un manque de casse-pieds dans le milieu de l'expérimentation des arts martiaux historiques. Il me semblait que c'était une ressource des plus abondantes.

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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Un anno fa ho ripreso a studiare italiano con Duolingo, circa quindici minuti ogni giorno. Non sono ancora in grado di avere una conversazione prolungata, ma sono capace di leggere libri e articoli più facilmente. Non è un programma perfetto - ma funziona per persone che amano imparare da soli.

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Hunting for sources sometimes yield new exciting results - and sometimes an entry that sounds promising is mildly disappointing, as the published version of the book is already widely available. At least the illustrations are prettier, and with a better quality than in most online digitizations

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As enticing as it sounds - unfortunately, it "only" contains an incomplete copy of the Libro de las Grandezas de la Espada by Luis Pacheco de Narváez, probably copied from the 1600 edition.

As part of my contributions to the PALAS project for the Fédération Française des #AMHE, I identified, and ordered the digitization of the Cod. 2147, which we received recently. It's now available in the PALAS collection wiki.ffamhe.fr/Lisboa_Bibli...

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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

In the collection of the National Library of Portugal rests a 500pages long illustrated manuscript in spanish from the 17th century entitled "De la Verdadera #Destreza" - which sounds exciting for anyone fond of geometry and #HEMA (there are dozens of us !)

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Wonderful article on the relation between #combat and #logic - relating Ralph Strode's Obligationes and the 14th century sword & buckler manuscript Ms. I.33 from the Royal Armouries. More academic work for #HEMA !

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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A new (smaller) issue of Acta Periodica Duellatorum is out - 4 articles for #HEMA enthusiasts of academic work.

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2024) | Acta Periodica Duellatorum

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Scans should be available on the Prague museum website within the year - hopefully as soon as June. this is an important piece of French fencing history, and I'm glad to be part of its re-discovery.

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I tipped off the PALAS project about the Prague manuscript, and a year late we got scans of "De la théorie ou science de l'espee seule" (40 chapters, legible French script). Olivier Dupuis is currently working on a transcription and will talk about it during his HEMAC conference.

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The Rennes library’s viewer isn’t the easiest to use, so I painstakingly compiled the images of Ms. 2348 into a cleaner PDF. Both the transcription and the PDF are available on the FFAMHE wiki recently updated : 🔗 wiki.ffamhe.fr/Ren%C3%A9_Bret #OpenAccess #FencingResources

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René Bret — Wiki AMHE

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A few years ago, Ms. 2348 in the Rennes library was digitized by the PALAS project. It’s a 1683 copy by Charles Robin d'Estréans of an earlier sword & dagger treatise by René Bret de La Fresnaye—a Parisian master of arms. It was transcribed by ELSAMHE in 2022.

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Another interesting find was a catalog entry for Ms. XG 21 in the Knihovna Národního muzea — attributed to "La Fresnaye." If you’re into 17th-century French rapier (you freak), that name should ring a bell.

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Last year, I went digging through digital library catalogs and found some previously unknown #HEMA stuff : a 1618 German rapier manual (ugly hand-drawn illustrations), a 19th-century copy of a 17th-century copy of the Dürer Fechtbuch, and a 1781 French & German fencing book by Sir Vodromont.

Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

One cannot have too many books in the #HEMA section of the library.

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Evénement international d'AMHE en Suisse - 11 au 13 septembre 2026

Hope to see you there you're in the Neuchâtel area. More information on hema-swiss-blades.ch

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Swiss Blades

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The conference will be a presentation of the Mars & Sol collection we co-direct. Its principles, its goals and its opportunities.

The workshop will deal with 16th century duelling according to Viggiani and dall'Agocchie using the single sword.

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Cédric Mas @cedricmas.eurosky.social · 26/04/2026

I'll teach both a #HEMA workshop and a conference in September in Switzerland with @heleneleblanc.bsky.social at #SwissBlades.

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1/ Rester sur X n'a AUCUNE justification, même en laissant de côté l'aspect idéologique (réseau d'un néonazi organisé pour promouvoir son idéologie, etc.). #Thread D'abord "l'audience" : le ratio internautes réels & intéressants Vs Bots et faux comptes de fermes à trolls est délirant.

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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

#HEMA in the wild - wrestling with a demon on the tympanum of the cathédrale Saint-Etienne in Bourges.

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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Latest addition to the library. #HEMA

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Ben Conan @dokdoyle.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

For instance #Gunterrodt illustrates his dussack section with fencers in "Turkish" garment. (You guessed it, this was all a setup to talk about Gunterrodt again)