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Swords of Chivalry: Historical Sword Combat
February 5, 2012
Swords Of Chivalry: Historical Sword Fighting
February 10, 2012
Blue & Gold: Knights and Chivalry
February 11, 2012
Swords of Chivalry: Historical Sword Combat
February 12, 2012
King Arthur and the Code of the Round Table
February 13, 2012
In Other Words...
“Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.”- Carlos Castaneda
Military & Politics Archive
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A Violent Shift In The Knightly Image
Posted on December 13, 2011 | No CommentsModern military psychology enables us to read medieval texts in a new way – giving us insight into the perception of violence in the Middle Ages in the general population and the use of lethal violence by knights -
Sun Tzu In Competition With Chivalry
Posted on September 12, 2011 | No CommentsAll businesses are trying to improve the world in one way or another, whether they recognize it or not. Even the most basic economic activities are worthy and important goals, but only if you value people. -
Saddle Up With Shakespeare’s Knights
Posted on July 20, 2011 | No CommentsOur presentation on Shakespeare's knights raised questions: Could a knight in armor "vault into his seat"? Didn't a knight need a winch or a crane to lift him into the saddle? -
Violent Arts & Gentle Souls
Posted on June 16, 2010 | No CommentsResearch suggests that young men who learn to fight in a safe, structured, respectful martial arts school are less antisocial. How does this work? -
Chivalry Awards Of 2009
Posted on December 4, 2009 | 11 CommentsAnyone who thinks “chivalry is dead” hasn’t been paying much attention to the news. Plenty of examples of chivalry made headlines in 2009. This isn’t the kind of chivalry that... -
Agincourt Part 1: Where Chivalry Died In The Mud
Posted on November 10, 2009 | 1 CommentAgincourt is not a tale of chivalry, but rather of armoured men hacking at each other to break limbs and crush skulls. At the battle's height, when Henry V expected an attack on his rear that never materialised, he ordered the newly captured French prisoners to be killed. They were murdered. -
Agincourt Part 2: Where A New Crop Of Chivalry Was Planted
Posted on November 9, 2009 | 1 CommentThe men in Henry's army must have believed they had been part of a miracle. The few had destroyed the many, and most of those few were archers. They were not lords and knights and gentry, but butchers, bakers and candlestick-makers from the shires. They were the ordinary men of England and Wales. -
Chivalry in War and Peace
Posted on December 11, 2008 | No CommentsBritish war veteran Sir Samuel Falle, one of 422 officers and sailors of the British Navy rescued by a Japanese warship during World War II, visited Japan and placed flowers on the grave of the ship’s commander last Sunday. -
Relics of Honor and Chivalry
Posted on June 23, 2007 | 1 CommentThe First World War began the destruction of the gentlemanly ideal — and Vietnam completed it. Nowadays, gentlemanliness is thought of as naive and impractical at best, a mask for oppression at worst. -
Chivalry And Humanity
Posted on September 23, 2006 | No CommentsSuch people do not deserve mercy. In my view, they have forfeited any moral right to expect it from us. You and your troops may be sorely tempted to deny them humane treatment as a result. But you must resist that temptation. Treat them humanely even though they don’t deserve it.
