The Armoury Roundtable
The Armoury Roundtable
Podcast Description
Discover the world of swords, armor, and history. In each episode, we sit down with passionate individuals from various walks of life who share a passion for swords, stories, and history.From dedicated collectors and renowned academics to skilled HEMA practitioners and master swordsmiths, people approach swords for a variety of reasons, and in a variety of different ways, discover them in each new episode.Together, we'll explore the craftsmanship, lore, and cultural significance behind weapons of the past, using them as a starting point to get a better understanding of long-gone worlds.Subscribe to Rapier's Delight on YouTube for videos about antique swords, sword maintenance, and other history topics.
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The podcast focuses on various topics related to swords, including craftsmanship, historical lore, and cultural significance. Notable episodes include discussions on sword measuring with Dlatrex Swords and research on the Spadone with Niccolò M. Menozzi. Each episode highlights unique aspects of sword history, maintenance, and community engagement, appealing to both historians and enthusiasts.
Discover the world of swords, armor, and history. In each episode, host Gabriele Culot sits down with passionate individuals from various walks of life who share a passion for swords, stories, and military history.
From dedicated collectors and renowned academics to skilled HEMA practitioners and master swordsmiths, people approach swords for a variety of reasons, and in a variety of different ways. Each new episode explores one of these unique approaches.
Together, we'll explore the craftsmanship, lore, and cultural significance behind weapons of the past, using them as a starting point to get a better understanding of long-gone worlds.
Subscribe to Rapier's Delight on YouTube for videos about antique swords, sword maintenance, and other history topics.
Single-edged medieval swords are a long-underrepresented weapon category in the history of combat and warfare.
This may be due to aesthetic preferences, to the availability of extant examples, or even to the complexity of their categorization. The winds, however, are changing, and with the rise of HEMA and a new interest in niche aspects of medieval life, falchions and messers are returning to some level of prominence.
The guest of today's Armoury Roundtable episode is the legendary James G. Elmslie, sword community veteran, swordmaker, and the author of the Elmslie typology, which sets out to categorize this elusive type of medieval weapon.
In this episode, James and host Gabriele Culot discuss messers, falchions, they value of sowrd typologies, and much more.
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