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5 days ago
knight vs samurai
This is a video explaining why a Knight would beat a Samurai in a fight.
The music is Progenies of the Great Apocolypse By: Dimmu Borgir. These are...
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1 week ago
Rick Santorum Gets the Crusades Right
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This video is not endorsing a particular political candidate, just making an ...
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@HereTheArtBegins
Oops, I miswrote; I don't mean "antipathy", I mean "apathy".
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1 week ago
Japanese Katana VS European Longsword - Samurai sword VS Knight Broadsword
Japanese Katana VS European Longsword - Samurai sword VS Knight Broadsword.
samurai katana tachi broad long sword tameshigiri war warrior knight...
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@BenkaiDebussy
The knight and the blast furnace is a good start, as well as the rest of Alan Williams' work. "Traditional Japanese Sword Making from a Tatara Ingot As
Estimated from Microstructural Examination" by Jang Sik-park is a good study also, showing that Tamahagane has certain severe is...
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2 weeks ago
Weapons and Tactics in Crusader Spain
This video details the arms, armor, and military approach of Crusaders in the Spanish wars against Islam.
Source cited:
Joseph O'Callaghan
Reconq...
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@alanheath
These were; "Castitas", or "Chastity", "Temperantia", or "Temperance", "Industria", or "Diligence", "Patientia", or "Patience", "Humilitas", or "Humility", and finally "Caritas", or "Charity" and "Humanitas", or "Kindness/Humanity".
The Seven Virtues were seven mental states which d...
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3 weeks ago
How sharp can European Medieval swords be?
This is just a short rant that I made after getting fed up hearing about how dull and clumsy European Medieval swords are, compared to Japanese swo...
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@hipicacacigrafosauro
So, why does one of the wounding attacks in the German school, the "Schnitt" exist, where one rests the blade against a target and then uses the sharpness of the blade to cut?
You can only do that with a sharp sword. So, yes. Medieval swords /are/ sharp.
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4 weeks ago
European Swords and Bludgeoning Power
Be it TV, Internet or your local Dojo, if it comes to "how medieval swords were used" everyone will tell you that european medieval swords were use...
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The inertia in Europe then would not be to the development of multiple different "styles" of martial arts as in Japan or China, but to merge all of the varying traditions into a recognizable, holistic system. There would never be a "Yagyu shinkage ryu" as opposed to a "nite...