Programme of Combat in Context 2018:
9.30 Doors open
9.45 – 10.00 Welcome
10.00 – 10.30 Gundula Lidke – Bronze age: The Bronze Age battle in the Tollense Valley
(c.1300- 1250) -materials, scenario, and experimental use of replica weapons.
10.30 – 11.00 Valerio Gentile – Bronze age: Investigating rules and values in Bronze Age Combat
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee / Tea break
11.30 – 12.00 Jorrit Kelder – Bronze Age: My kingdom for a horse! Horses, hunters, and cavalry in
Late Bronze Age Aegean and beyond
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Aurelien Nouvion -13th century: Fencing clerks? Questioning the oldest medieval
Fight Book: the manuscript I.33.
14.30 – 15.00 Reinier van Noort – 17th century: The life and work of fencing master Johannes
Bruchius in context.
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee / Tea break
15.30 – 16.00 Oskar ter Mors and Casper van Dijk – 15th century: Fencing with the long knife in
different contexts according to Johannes Lecküchner. (Demonstration).
16.00 – 16.30 Discussion and closing remarks
16.30 Drinks