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Where We Focus

The ARMA focuses on the interpretation and legitimate reconstruction of medieval and Renaissance combat systems as a modern discipline. We allow people to freely and seriously practice this subject without the concerns of staged fighting and sporting play, or the distractions of role-playing and fantasy

The ARMA Credo

  • Study European arms and armor from the point of view of their historical function and use.
  • Study historical source literature as instructional fighting guides.
  • Examine historical European martial culture within a broader historiographic context.
  • Study, Interpret, Practice, Promote, and Teach the martial arts of Renaissance Europe.
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Objectives of the ARMA

  • Offer classes, workshops, and seminars through a continually-revised system of established drills and exercises (Armatura).
  • Provide a training program allowing students to learn and practice within a common structure that is historically valid and martially sound.
  • Advance the quality of skills demonstrated with medieval and Renaissance weaponry.
  • Improve the relationship between practitioners and academics in order to stimulate the exchange of knowledge and encourage understanding of historical European combat skills.
  • Raise the level of scholarship within the historical fencing community with its emerging interest in source texts.

Our Purpose

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Surviving Examples

Study European arms and armor from the point of view of their historical function and use.

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Extant Sources

Study historical source literature as instructional fighting guides.

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Period Culture

Examine historical European martial culture within a broader historiographic context.

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Share Knowledge

Study, Interpret, Practice, Promote, and Teach the martial arts of Renaissance Europe.

Learn More About the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts

The ARMA endeavors to approximate historical fighting skills through a curriculum of reconstructed techniques, principles, and methods for using a variety of swords, spears, shields, staff weapons, daggers, and unarmed grappling and wrestling skills as taught in numerous surviving books and manuscripts.

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