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Crafts and Craftspeople–Jeffrey Hildebrandt–writing about the past

April 10, 2015 by Christian 1 Comment

Those of you who have the UK editions of the Red Knight know that the cover and the internal illustrations are not ‘generic’ and represent characters and scenes from the book. The chapter heads were drawn by my friend Dimitry Bondarenko, and some of them are portraits of people and artifacts and costumes that inspired […]

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Whores and Heroines–writing about war and women

April 1, 2015 by Christian 11 Comments

This is not, strictly speaking, a book review of ‘Common Women’ by Ruth Mazzo Carras or of ‘The Cavalry Maiden’ or ‘The Tigress of Forli’ or Ulrich’s superb ‘Midwife’s Tale’ although I truly recommend all four books. It is more of an essay on writing about women in the midst of war.  I’m going to […]

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Wargaming and writing (and a bit of a battle report)

March 26, 2015 by Christian 4 Comments

I spent last weekend in the United States, visiting friends from university and from my military career.  And yes (nerdy spoiler) I’m an inveterate gamer as well as a sword nerd and a reading nerd and a history nerd.  I play them all–fantasy role-plying games (RPGs hereafter) and historical RPGs and sci-fi games with 40,000 […]

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Clothes Make the Character (Or why everyone in the Traitor Son series has to have a wardrobe)

March 17, 2015 by Christian 4 Comments

 Margherita De Marco Yes, it’s true—I have closets full of historical clothes. In fact, not only do I have closets full, but so do my wife and daughter—clothes for at least three time periods (besides our own, of course) and sometimes four. Or five. Nor are these clothes, strictly speaking, costumes. To me, a costume […]

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The Siege of Belgrade 1456, or why is history so complicated?

March 12, 2015 by Christian 8 Comments

This week, I’m writing the last pages of the last installment do ‘Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade.’  It is, I think, some of my best writing; by including a major female character who is, to put it nicely, a ‘woman of the army,’ I’ve taken an opportunity to give a voice to the […]

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The Red Knight — Writing about Tournaments

March 10, 2015 by Christian 4 Comments

Photo credit Celia Peachum (www.flickr.com/photos/celiapeachum/) Six months ago I wrapped up the ‘Tournament’ portion of Tournament of Fools (or whatever my publishers will eventually call it.) I’ll try to avoid spoilers, but I thought that it might entertain readers to get an idea of the process.  And, as the publishing date is coming in October […]

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Writing about Fighting

March 6, 2015 by Christian 4 Comments

I am often asked–often by readers, but occasionally by other writers–about writing fight scenes.  I thought I’d write a sort of mixed book review, ‘sport’ review and writing tutorial. The three books (really, two books and a series) are, in no particular order, Bob Charette’s brilliant Armizare, the Chivalric Martial Arts System of Il Fior […]

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Review of ‘The Thief’s Tale’ by SJA Turney

March 4, 2015 by Christian 2 Comments

Buy It in the UK! Buy it in the USA Last year, before the ‘Pen and Sword’ tour even launched, I took a few days in Istanbul with one of my oldest friends, Steve Callahan, and my wife Sarah.  When we met up with Steve, he told me he’d been reading Simon (SJA) Turney’s Ottoman […]

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And sometimes, I’m wrong

March 3, 2015 by Christian 3 Comments

That is a stele (or a fragment thereof) in the New Acropolis Museum in Athens.  I was there last year with my Pen and Sword tour… which of course we’re doing again this year–anyway, I was looking at this stele, as one does, and I suddenly realized that I’d misunderstood the way a trieres (a […]

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Book Review – ‘Old School’ Essays on Japanese Martial Traditions’ by Ellis Amdur

February 27, 2015 by Christian 2 Comments

Book Review – ‘Old School’ Essays on Japanese Martial Traditions’ by Ellis Amdur I am not a serious Japanese-school martial artist. I have played with, and enjoyed, Kendo, Iado, and Aikido, but I suspect that a lifetime of study in the world of Classics and the European Middle Ages—and reenacting the same—has walled me off […]

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Book Review: Henchmen of Ares: Warriors and Warfare in Early Greece By Josho Brouwers

February 21, 2015 by Christian Leave a Comment

This website was created to support my 2014 tour of Greece with fans and friends (now, all friends, and hopefully still fans) and we’re already working on another round in November of 2015.  So this is the right place–you’ll see updates on the sites and writings–and the Martial Arts–over the next few months.  But I’ve […]

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Perhaps some exercise?

August 22, 2014 by Christian Leave a Comment

I’m wondering if the folks coming on the Pen and Sword tour would be interested in practicing some historical swordsmanship while we’re in Greece.  My notion is to explore Italian Longsword or single sword, and I’d teach some basic forms, all the guards, and bring equipment to allow some (very limited and safe) sparring.   […]

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