Egad, more sword-fighting!
For anyone interested, here’s commentary regarding the evolution from mediaeval broadsword to the rapier. Also, some remarks about fencing with two swords—’dual-wielding’.
Author: johnmanders
More fun for you Tudor fans
Many thanks to EverythingTudorBlog for reblogging this daft little adventure! If you’re a history fan—especially of Great Britain—please visit and say hello.
Thanks also to ReallyCoolPigeons for the reblog!
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Five centuries before Marvel decided to replace Tony Stark with a teenaged girl as Iron Man, here is Lady Elizabeth Tudor swashbuckling with the big boys.
Back in 16th-century England, there existed a martial-arts guild known as the “The Corporation of Masters of the Noble Science of Defence”, or the “Company of Masters”. Who is to say whether they admitted girls into their school?
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Huzzah, more sword-fighting—and trash-talking!
Embroidery was a pastime of aristocratic ladies in sixteenth-century England. They weren’t supposed to be sword-fighting, probably.
Hic, haec, hoc: ‘This, this, this’ in Latin; the nominative case; masculine, feminine & neuter. Lady Elizabeth Tudor was a clever language student. She amused herself by translating classical works from Latin to English. Beside Latin, Elizabeth was fluent in six languages, including Greek, French, and Italian.
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