We offer several conferences throughout the event. They are given by instructors and academic researchers of international renown.
HEMA pioneers in the 19th century
The aim of this conference is to present the more or less successful attempts to reconstitute fencing and historical combat carried out in France, England, Belgium and elsewhere in the end of the 19th century. It is indeed noteworthy and rich in prospects to note the attempts led by others, more than one century before the academic and leisure discipline that are HEMA was defined as we know it today.
Trying, discovering, failing but also instrumentalizing, enthusiasts of this period wrote books, tried reenactments, created shows. This conference seeks to show today’s practitioners the importance and legacy of these early attempts on our contemporary researches, but also to learn from the mistakes of those HEMA pioneers in Europe.
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