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- Subject: Re: Just Curious
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.123224.460@otago.ac.nz>
- From: syco508@otago.ac.nz
- Date: 28 Dec 92 12:32:24 +1300
- Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- " Combat Sports In the Ancient World" is an intresting book on the subject
- but mainly concentrates on the Greeks, due to the fact that we know more
- about them. I have read, in a book on duellng whose name I can't rember,
- that during the late middle ages every European town had it's own school
- of fighting. Sounded a lot like the different commercial MA schoools
- around now. The same book talked about Irish stick fighting. I want
- to follow that up as I know an Irish folk song about fighting in Ireland
- that talks about the Hero's teacher and briefly comments on his training.
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- A lot of fighting certainly went on in Europe but little of the styles
- and training methods have come down to us. As some one has alresdy
- commented this is probably due to the fact that `pesants' and/or
- conqured peoples, such as the Irish, Cornish, Scottish etc. were
- carrying on these traditions as part of their native culture. This
- of course was not to be encouraged.
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- I would be very intrested if anyone has any information on European
- styles and training methods.
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- J. P. Hegarty syco508@otago.ac.nz
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