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HEMA Roundtables

HEMA Roundtables is a project that brings people together to discuss history books and topics relevant to the practice and interpretation of HEMA.

Apr 1, 2020

In this episode, I am joined by Adam Franti, Jess Finley, and Kendra Brown as we discuss John Lynn's "Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe." This book sits in between military history and gender studies, and serves as a fantastic starting point for future research questions and projects about gender and...


Aug 20, 2019

In this episode, we continue our discussion of Hillay Zmora’s “The Feud in Early Modern Germany,” and Zmora’s theories on the rise and decline of feuding. We also discuss a very peculiar organization of nobles.

Our discussants are:

Adam Franti (Lansing Longsword Guild)

Brian Puckett (Minneapolis Amateur...


Aug 5, 2019

Our first episode focuses on the book, “The Feud in Early Modern Germany” by Hillay Zmora, which provides great context for the types of violence nobles faced in late 15th century Southern Germany. This is part one of a two part discussion. In this part, we discuss the details of feuds, the limits of violence, and...