In a new entry of his fantastic blog Ensis Sub Caleo, Vincent offers a concordance between Lovino and the XVIIth century copy linked in my previous post. #HEMA #sidesword

Pseudo-Lovino concordance | Ensis Sub Caelo

A short presentation of a recently found set of plates apparently copied from Lovino's manuscript, and a concordance with the original.

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Finally arrived in Sherbrooke, Quebec and happy to participate to the XIXe Rencontres du Réseau international francophone de recherche en #Éducation et #Formation I will have the opportunity to discuss the #vulnerability involved in #experimentalapproaches to the #historyofcombat

Book doodle found in an 15th century book: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

L'université française toute cette semaine: "Je remercie les organisateurs du séminaire pour leur *chaleureuse* invitation"

Arc long et idées courtes. @v-h-t.bsky.social dans le podcast Le fil de l’épée aujourd’hui pour parler du « longbow », d’Azincourt, et des mythes mémoriels et historiograpiques accompagnant cette arme. Bonne écoute ! youtu.be/jxA8um9nTg0?...

L'arme fatale #7 : Arc long et idées courtes. Au-delà des idées reçues sur le longbow médiéval

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Despite the heat, I have no regrets about making a detour to Paris Arsenal library. The @labnf.bsky.social exhibition "Powder and Ink" is fantastic. Go there to see #GirardThibault #Callot and #Sade sharing the same room

Next Friday in Paris, I will be at the SPHERE conference #Euclid in Literature and the Arts. I will talking about Euclid and Fight books in the early modern period. sphere.cnrs.fr/en/event/euc...

I have just finished Metaphysical Animals by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman. My conclusion? Read it! You’ll learn so much. Here is a short review in 7 bullet points.

The personification of the Seven Liberal Arts: Astronomy, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Rhetoric, Logic and Grammar BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c.1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.29r @blmedieval.bsky.social

Happy to share the link of my article cowritten with Pascale Bermon on the Prologue of Ralph #Strode's #Obligationes : the practice of #logic as an art of #combat (Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge 2025/1) : shs.cairn.info/tap-wj908zpu... #medievalstudies #historyoflogic

⚔️ L’appel à contribution du tout prochain colloque de la FFAMHE, qui aura lieu du côté de Besançon fin août ! www.ffamhe.fr/colloque-2026

Today, I was so happy to find it in my letterbox the 2025 issue of the Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du #MoyenÂge. It includes an article co-written by me and Pascale Bermon on the 14th c. Oxford philosopher Ralph #Strode and his approach to logic as a form of combat #historyoflogic

Today marks the completion of a project that began over two years ago: the publication of François Siedel’s translation and edition of Sciomachia and Hoplomachia by Heinrich von #Gunterrodt, a 16th-century lawyer and #fencer. Now freely available at solstices-project.com/categorie-pr...

📣Next meeting - #DescartesLab March 27, 2026 - at 3.00 pm (Italy time) / 10.00 am (NY city) Discussion of Elodie Cassan's Le langage de la raison (Vrin, 2023) #histphilo #17thcentury #ageofreason #Descartes #cartesianism - attendance is free fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/m...

According to Mercuriale (1569, I, 10), Greeks and Romans went to the baths for the taste of being clean (!): As clothing had not yet been invented, people easily became dusty and it was necessary ‘to wash at least 3 or 4 times a month’

John #Locke prefers #wrestling to #fencing: "And certainly a man of courage who cannot fence at all, and therefore will put all upon one thrust, and not stand parrying, has the odds against a moderate fencer, especially if he has skill in wrestling...."

One of the things I like the most about #HEMA club is the mini-conferences we run thrice a year. It started with online courses during the Plague, and evolved into the current format. Here are pics from last Tuesday, at the Mazot cosmique, with Olivier presenting a history of the #foil. ⚔

Lors de #Marquisattack VI - Odyssée, @heleneleblanc.bsky.social d'Annecy a tenu une conférence sur la cuture et les références philosophiques mobilisée par les auteurs des livres de combat - elle est accessible librement sur youtube. #HEMA #Philo

MARQUISATTACK 2026 Aristote et Liechtenauer sont sur un bateau - Hélène LEBLANC

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A little reading in the pipeline : Martin Kintzinger, Dialog, Duell, Disputation

I have been waiting for this book for a long time: I am delighted to share this announcement of a publication authored by friends and colleagues. For anyone interested in #medieval logical practices #medievalphilosophy #historyoflogic

It's a bit specific, but it took me a while to find them, so for anyone who would be interested: Lucini's dwarves fencers have been digitised by the BNF and are available in the Marolles collection ark:/12148/btv1b53266963x Volume 1, pp. 97-98 #historyoffencing #CamilloAgrippa #JacquesCallot

I will be there

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📣Next meeting - #DescartesLab March 27, 2026 - at 3.00 pm (Italy time) / 9.00 am (NY city) Discussion of Elodie Cassan's Le langage de la raison (Vrin, 2023) - the meeting is in English and online #histphilo #17thcentury #ageofreason #Descartes #cartesianism - attendance is free

Un très bel épisode pour un très beau podcast que j'avais intérieurement élu meilleur podcast de l'année 🤩! après avoir poncé presque tous les épisodes du #Collimateur, ça fait tout drôle d'entendre parler, très bien, d'un sujet que je connais bien lerubicon.org/collimateur-...

L'arme fatale : l'épée à deux mains [Le Fil de l'épée #2]

Pour ce deuxième épisode de ce format consacré aux armes iconiques de l'histoire militaire (désormais intitulé "l'arme fatale") le Fil de l'épée se penche sur l'épée longue (ou à deux mains) de la fin...

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As part of the Observatory podcast series, the NOTCOM Team has produced two new episodes. Check them out: - 'Green sickness, the disease of virgins' with Úna Faller notcom.hypotheses.org/6657 - 'Se battre en philosophie' avec @heleneleblanc.bsky.social notcom.hypotheses.org/6991

Closing my stay as an invited researcher at the Maison Française d’Oxford, I was interviewed yesterday on the #NOTCOM project podcast: notcom.hypotheses.org/6991 #historyofphilosophy #historyoffencing @mfoxford.bsky.social

Se battre en philosophie – avec Hélène Leblanc

Pour ce nouvel épisode, nous recevons Hélène Leblanc (FPSE – Université de Genève & IHRIM – ENS de Lyon) qui nous parle du statut du combat à l’épée, et notamment l’escrime, en histoire de...

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So good to see a publication like this in OA : #Signs and #Signification in a Global Comparative Perspective #Premodern and #EarlyModern Sources, eds. Maria Auxent and Glenn W. Most, brill.com/display/titl...

Very happy to be in #Oxford as an invited researcher at the Maison Française d'Oxford. I will be a collaborator in the ERC NOTCOM : a philosophical study of common notions, collective inquiry, and dissemination strategies in 17th c. natural science #historyofphilosophy #earlymodern

ERC Project 'NOTCOM'

The Common Notion. Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century

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Correcting #ethics exams Episode 2. When students skilfully sidestep the big questions : ‘We will not dwell on the definition of good; others have done so (or at least tried to) before me, so my task is marginally less complex.’

In a recently published note by Erik Jan Bos, we discover some fascinating facts about the dual professional lives of the #mastersofarms. 👇Here is a short summary of this publication in the #Bulletincartésien LV, which is available (with restricted access) on shs.cairn.info/revue-archiv...

Great tips from @goingloopy.bsky.social as always ! #methodology #research #philosophy