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# Medieval Roleplay - Awesome list

This list is about all kinds of topics related to the late medieval period. I have gathered these informations in order to enhance my experience in roleplaying. Now these might be helpful for you too.



### Weapons, Armour, Combat

* :uk: [Langes Messer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u8RDw3dFXQ)
> The Langes Messer was a very popular weapon in 15th century Germanic regions, due to its handiness often used as a sidearm and though nowadays often associated with people from lower classes of society, it was in fact carried by members of nobility as well.

* :uk: [Six Medieval Arrow Types](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McnKrV0aDjo)
* [Mobility in Medieval Plate Armour](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTwBQniLSc)
* :uk: [A 15th C Illustrated Manual of Sword Fighting and Close Quarter Combat - Hans Talhoffer](https://archive.org/details/Medieval_Combat_A_15th_C_Illustrated_Manual_of_Sword_Fighting_and_Close-Quarter_)
* :fr: [Fiore dei Liberi](https://www.ffamhe.fr/wiki/Fiore_dei_Liberi) - italian fencing master 14th C
* :fr: [Johannes Liechtenauer](https://www.ffamhe.fr/wiki/Johannes_Liechtenauer) - german fencing master 14th and 15th C
* :uk: [Wiktenauer](https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Main_Page) - free library of Historical European Martial Arts books and manuscripts
* :uk: [Sigmund Ringeck](https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Sigmund_Ringeck) - german fencing master 15th C
* [Northmen - Longbow making](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68L7n5Shd3I)
* :uk: [Modern History TV](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMjlDOf0UO9wSijFqPE9wBw) - YT serie investigates the life of knights, peasants and nobles in late medieval
* :uk: [Longbow vs Crossbow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w8yHeF4KRk)
* :uk: [Arming Garments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQDMtFiDaEA)


#### Akademia Szermierzy
> HEMA polish practitioners
* :uk: [Becoming a perfect fencer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbMRIvH7PM)
* [Fior di Battaglia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GoQlvc_H3s)

#### Don't do it at home
* :us: [This, sir, will kill](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbdFlkjLxA4) - USA meets blacksmithing
* :uk: [Messer practice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDP2maXCzt4)
* :boom: [BOOM!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZqhCgDRlA)
* [Longsword duel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn36Pb8z3yI)
* [hnnng](https://youtu.be/8vYFFx4whoE?t=373)


### Clothes

* :fr: [Clothing at the time of Joan of Arc](http://www.stejeannedarc.net/dossiers/vetements_jeanne.php)

### Society

* :fr: [Vol et Brigandage au Moyen-Âge](https://criminocorpus.hypotheses.org/13837)
* :fr: [L'alphabétisation du peuple à la fin du Moyen Age](https://www.persee.fr/doc/rnord_0035-2624_1984_num_66_261_4045)
* :fr: [Le châtiment du crime au Moyen-Âge](https://books.openedition.org/pur/8962?lang=fr)
* :fr: [Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes](https://journals.openedition.org/crm/)
* :fr: [IRHT Paris au Moyen Age](https://www.irht.cnrs.fr/?q=fr/agenda/paris-au-moyen-age)
* :fr: [Revues du CAIRN](https://www.cairn.info/revue-le-moyen-age.htm)
* :uk: [Alixe Bovey, medievalist](https://www.bl.uk/the-middle-ages/articles)
* :uk: [Shadiversity, medieval misconceptions: torches and candles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsBNHbWGdbY)


### Health

* :fr: [Louise Bourgeois, une sage-femme badass](https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/sfhm/hsm/HSMx2009x043x001/HSMx2009x043x001x0027.pdf)
* :uk: [History of human cadaveric dissection](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4582158/)

### Medieval Music

* :fr: [Du rap au Moyen-Âge](https://youtu.be/2WL5mUBsxKc)
* :fr: [Le manuscrit de Bayeux](https://archive.org/details/lemanuscritdebay00gr/page/2)
* [Lo Cor de la Plana - Farfaneta](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqGHTqdk35o)
* :fr: [La fille au roi Louis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5_GWrb_IoE)
* :fr: [Le roi Renaud](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4lsDmT4sk0)
* [Guillaume Dufay: Missa l'Homme Armé - Kyrie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLwMEBlBBB4)
* [Arianna Savall - Adoucit la Mélodie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8jrED5WagY)

### Food

* :fr: [Gastronomie Médiévale BnF](http://expositions.bnf.fr/gastro/recettes/index.htm)
* :fr: [Exemples de plats](https://www.voyageurs-du-temps.fr/exemple-type-de-menu-repas-medieval-avec-recettes-et-boissons-de-cuisine-medievale-du-moyen-age_881.html)

### YT for fun

* :fr: [Confessions d'Histoire](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzj9-ZfpJ74vYv1RZzAWTVg)
* :fr: [Castor Mother](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfO4BQD5_S1272GVmuXmTxA)
* :fr: [Nota Bene](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP46_MXP_WG_auH88FnfS1A)
* :fr: [L'Histoire nous le dira](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN4TCCaX-gqBNkrUqXdgGRA)
Obviously:
* :uk: [Lindybeige](https://www.youtube.com/user/lindybeige/videos)
* :uk: [Shadiversity](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkmMACUKpQeIxN9D9ARli1Q)
* :uk: [Schola Gladiatoria](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3WIohkLkH4GFoMrrWVZZFA)
* :uk: [Skallagrim](https://www.youtube.com/user/SkallagrimNilsson/videos)
