tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post8681840274390466732..comments2024-02-22T19:21:40.330-05:00Comments on Muhlberger's World History: Back to the Source -- A documentary on Historical European Martial ArtsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-56663066354057187622015-10-31T10:33:45.712-04:002015-10-31T10:33:45.712-04:00(From Sean Manning, who is routinely blocked from ...(From Sean Manning, who is routinely blocked from commenting)<br /><br />That is a very good documentary. Cheap fossil fuels and digitalization have borne many evils, but crowdfunding is a very good thing (and hey, I can get photos and transcriptions of tablets in a few minutes off Achemenet rather than over the course of weeks through the old boy's network).<br /><br /> I love that he labeled the section on clothing "HEMA identity." One of the things which I find most bewildering about the people who have come to dominate the movement is their eagerness to create and enforce the use of uniforms modeled on modern sportswear in black (and to ban metal safety equipment in favour of synthetic substitutes). But the people who call themselves Franks in 400 CE did not get to have a veto on who got to call themself a Frank in 600.<br /><br /> Ethnogenesis, and changes in who identify themselves with a term, can be very fast these days.<br />Steve Muhlbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136005762428407135noreply@blogger.com