ANST - Field Personnas?

Dennis and/or Dory Grace amazing at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Oct 3 13:20:15 PDT 1997


Salut, Cosyns,

Lyonel aisai.

Madame Ghislaine Fontanneau posts:
>Does this question/discusion apply only to heavy fighters, or can
>rapier-weilders play too?  I know of several late-period personnas who
>stay true to their personnas on and off the field, wearing appropriate
>clothing and armor, speaking the appropriate language, discussing period
>topics, displaying the appropriate attitue, and fighting in a period
>style.  I, myself, an preparing to begin a study of DiGrassi, a period
>fencing master.  No more modern strip fencing in garb for me, I want to
>be true to my personna.  Never mind that I'm a *girl*.....

And for anyone else interested in studying diGrassi (who also takes up the
Great Sword and Halberd), the entire text of his _True Art of Defense_ is
online at  
http://www.transarc.com/afs/transarc.com/public/groff/html/sca/fencing/manua
ls/diGrassi/contents.htm

lo vostre por vos servir
Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace
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Dennis Grace
University of Texas at Austin
English Department
Recovering Medievalist
mailto:amazing at mail.utexas.edu

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                           AElfric of York
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