| Re: Interesting television program last night.
Anonymous <cripto@ecn.org> wrote in
news:231147014185e94a93e4cba704f64800@ecn.org:
> On The History Channel. It is called "Conquest" with Peter Woodward.
>
> They did a show on dueling and rapier fighting, and it wasn't half
> bad, IMVHO.
I'm afraid I missed that one, but from other episodes I've seen, it's
likely to be one of those maddening combinations of good information and
outright crap. I did see promos and found it rather incongruous that they
presented men in late 15th-century get-up apparently going at each other
with sword and buckler.
And I do hope that the lady smallsworder was not meant to be La Maupin,
since she is recorded as dressing in male attire when she duelled.
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