Alison Kannon is an avid costumer and a rabid historical martial arts and fencing enthusiast. She has been studying and teaching Sixteenth Century European martial arts since 2001. She is an enthusiastic historical re-enactor and created Elizabethanmafia.com in order to share her research of the fashion, culture, and martial arts of Early Modern England.
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University Recap
I had a fabulous time at June University this past weekend. I got to spend some time fighting C&T pickups with Giacomo, enjoyed Isobel, Robert, and Lisette’s furniture class, and my dueling class went rather well. It was really rather … Continue reading
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Housekeeping & Feedback
I’ve been doing a lot of housekeeping tasks for the blog this week. In addition to updating my version of wordpress I’ve also gone through and updated my plugin versions, gotten rid of some plugins that just weren’t working out, … Continue reading
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Establishing a Schedule
As many of you know issues with my webhost in June precipitated me having to move my site to a new host and rebuild it. Part of rebuilding it was reestablishing and rebuilding this blog. I had thought I had … Continue reading
Website Updates
Yesterday I spent sometime updating my website: Reorganizing: One of the big things that I did was reorganize the menu at the top of the page. I’ve removed the Weekly Inspiration feature. It wasn’t really working with the site the … Continue reading
New Additions
There hasn’t been alot to add this week. I’ve been working on prep for Mousehole so I haven’t had as much time to write about my projects or martial arts. I expect that will get back to normal though next … Continue reading
New Articles Available
My new Swetnam article, The Fight of Joseph Swetnam with Rapier and Dagger: Thrusts and Passages, and my thankfully rediscovered revision of The Footwork of Di Grassi are both now available on my website.
What once was lost….
I didn’t loose much this summer when issues with my old host caused me to very quickly have to move my site to a new host. I lost a couple of blog posts I was rather fond of but I … Continue reading
Weekend Recap: New Gallery Edition
I’m exceptionally pleased with myself. I’ve replaced my old Gallery 2 gallery with a JoomGallery that is incorporated into my site and looks so much nicer than the old one. Those of you who are actually good with computers with … Continue reading
Progress
Things are now, finally, pretty much back up. I’m still working on uploading pictures back into my gallery and some of my project write ups are on hold until I can get those pictures up. But I’m hoping to have … Continue reading
Engines At 50%
My website is now about 50% back up. My HMA articles are all back up except for my recent rewrite of my article on Di Grassi’s footwork. That is sadly lost because it wasn’t backed up like I thought it … Continue reading