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If anyone wants to try using some of this stuff and not just looking at it, there are a number of schools that study the martial arts described in these manuals. Depending on where you are you can probably find a local(ish) study group or school here: http://hemaalliance.com/?page_id=686 I run a group just southwest of Portland Oregon (www.nwarmizare.com), and we're one of four local groups all studying different things. We specialize in the techniques of Fiore die Liberi.

There is an awesome /r/ on this too: http://www.reddit.com/r/wma

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On a semi-related aside, I teach knife throwing -- if anyone is interested and lives in the bay area. Msg me for more info.

A lot of that was once at AEMMA site, but long gone. I am glad many titles are back again.

Under Weapons -> Marriage Counselling.

Could be a mistake methinks.

I suspect it is referencing the illustrations linked to from those pages listed beneath it, of a duel between a man standing in a hole with a cudgel and a woman with a rock on some string.

Folio 194v of http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Gladiatoria_(Cl._23842) . It's actually a setup for a judicial combat between a man and a woman (so not necessarily a married couple, I think).

I think so too. The image first looked weird, and then I realized this.

This is absolutely amazing...

More on judicial combat between a man and a woman:

http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/trial_by_combat/combat_...

I suppose that would fall under marital martial arts...

Thanks, I found this most intriguing.

Ummm... Australia is listed as Europe....

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