Re: [CFML] Digest Number 699

[truthsword@aol.com]

Dear Heidi,

It seems like you have an interesting challenge on your hands!

That the novel is set in Yorkshire is close enough to home to catch my
interest, as I am based in Edinburgh.

You wrote, ~
> From what I've read England was not exactly
> known for capital fencers, so I thought that wouldn't be to hard.
>
That`s because they have had capital Scots to contend with!

If you wish to mail on this list or privately, I would at least be willing
to advise upon local tendencies and appropriate weaponry and terms for the
specific period.

Yours Very Truly,

Paul Macdonald,
Maestro d` Armi, IMAF,
Director, British Federation for Historical Swordplay,
Macdonald Academy of Arms,
Dawn Duellists Society,
Macdonald Armouries


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[William Black]

> So things I don't know are what sort of equipment would a gentleman
> be using if he were bored in Yorkshire teaching a rather
> unconventional young lady to fence?

Yorkshire's a reasonably big place.

If he's near Sheffield he could have probably ordered swords the equal of
any in the world.

I don't know when the Angelo school in London was open, but someone will,
it was probably the best fencing school in Europe...

However he'd have access to foils, and small swords, with no trouble.
These things were around and available just about everywhere.

Both would probably run rings around someone with an old rapier.

You can see all this stuff at the Royal Armouries collection at Leeds...

In Yorkshire...

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