Symposium on Historical European Martial Arts 4/27/2019

[Julie Olson]

Raymond J. Lord Symposium on Historical European Martial Arts

The Renaissance Center will host the fifteenth annual Raymond J. Lord Symposium on historical European martial arts on Saturday, April 27, 2019. Our keynote speaker this year is Ann Tlusty, Professor of History at Bucknell University and author of The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms, and Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany.

The symposium will be held at the UMass Renaissance Center (650 East Pleasant St. Amherst, MA).  It runs from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. There is no charge for attendance but there is a $10 fee for lunch.  Pre-registration is required by April 25.  Please call 413-577-3600 or email jgoo...@hfa.umass.edu.  

[Jeff Goodhind]

Reminder of this upcoming event

Raymond J. Lord Symposium on Historical European Martial Arts

The Renaissance Center will host the fifteenth annual Raymond J. Lord Symposium on historical European martial arts on Saturday, April 27, 2019. Our keynote speaker this year is Ann Tlusty, Professor of History at Bucknell University and author of The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms, and Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany.

Dr. Tlusty will deliver two talks, entitled

Part I: 
How Not to Win in Early Modern Germany: Violating the Rules of Fair Play

Part II: 

Violating the Rules II: Supernatural Risk and the (Super)Manly Man

 

The symposium will be held at the UMass Renaissance Center (650 East Pleasant St. Amherst, MA).  It runs from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. 

There is no charge for attendance but there is a $10 fee for lunch (payable at the door).  Pre-registration is required by April 25.  Please call 413-577-3600 or email jgoo...@hfa.umass.edu.  Please be clear when registering if we should count you for lunch.

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[Andrew Shultz]

Is there any broader list of the contents and/or a rough schedule? 

[Steven G]

I'm almost definitely going to this if anyone is thinking about attending. We could carpool as it is very far.

[Jeff Goodhind]

Just one final reminder about this event. We have limited space so if you plan on attending please be sure to pre-register. Thank you.

Raymond J. Lord Symposium on Historical European Martial Arts

The Renaissance Center will host the fifteenth annual Raymond J. Lord Symposium on historical European martial arts on Saturday, April 27, 2019. Our keynote speaker this year is Ann Tlusty, Professor of History at Bucknell University and author of The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms, and Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany.  The schedule of talks is as follows.

9:00 Opening Reception

9:55 Welcome

10:00 Ann Tlusty. How Not to Win in Early Modern Germany: Violating the Rules of Fair Play

11:00 Anton Kohutovič and Martin Tibenský. Traces of fencing culture in Eastern Central Europe (Remote)

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Jeff Goodhind. Rare Book Presentation: Context and Connections of Violence

2:00 Jean Chandler. The knightly feud and the fencing master: Feuding between the estates in Late Medieval Central Europe, in the context of Historical Fencing. (Remote)

3:00 Ann Tlusty. Violating the Rules II: Supernatural Risk and the (Super)Manly Man