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·         Armor

• Armour Archive
  A great web site for anything armor related.

·         Armor – Armored Combat

• Black Diamond Metal Arts
  Ladies Armor
• Evaine’s Armour
  Evaine ni MacGreger’s Leather Armor Pattern & Pictures. The best part is the entire set can be made with about 1/2 hide of leather, a mat knife, leather rivets, waxed thread, a big needle and a hammer.
• Hip Belt
  A Word Document showing how to make a hip belt.
• Period and SCA Combat
  From florilegium.org
• SCA Armor: A How-To Manual
  A collection of good links for Armoring
• Women’s Armor
  By Lady Yang SuGyong, has an overview of some of the standard body differences.
• Women’s Armor Pic Page
  Becky’s collection of pictures of different women’s armor.

·         Armor – Rapier

• How to Make a Fencing Doublet
  By Don Andre
• Making a Simple Hardened-Leather Rapier Gorget
  By THL Todde
• SCA and Period Rapier Combat
  From florilegium.org

·         Armored Rose

• Amazon.com Reviews
  Amazon’s reviews of the Armored Rose
• The Armored Rose Disassembled
  Sir Corby’s collected works on the Armored Rose

 

 

· Combat

• Chivalry
  From florilegium.org
• Chivalry Today
  Duke Guillaume’s web site about Chivalry, a must read!
• Chronique
  Earl Brion’s web site about all things relating to chivalry
• Legio Draconis : Art of Combat
  Has a huge collections of fighting manuals from many different sources.

· Combat – Armored Combat

• Asgard Fighter’s Page
  By Duke Baldar Langstrider & Duc Gaston de Vieuxchamps, it includes a manual and great movies with drills.
• Bellatrix Fighting School
  By Duke Paul of Bellatrix. NOTE: Paul has also stated that he is willing to help train fighters via correspondence, please contact him via his web site if you are interested.
• Defending against and killing combat archers with a sword and board
  By Duke Patrick.
• Fundamentals of Oldcastle Sword and Shield
  By Duke Gyrth Oldcastle.
• Individual Fighter Practice Drills
  By Sir Caedmon macAhern.
• Period and SCA Combat
  From florilegium.org
• Trompe-L’oeil
  By Duke Sir Patrick Devilin of DarkWrath Keep.

· Combat – Rapier

• SCA and Period Rapier Combat
  From florilegium.org
• Scola Metallorum Rapier Training Manual
  A huge manual detailing most of the things you would encounter in rapier fighting.

· Community

• House Ironrose
  The virtual home of the Ironrose household. An affiliation of women fighters and supporters of women fighters.
• House Lionesse
  An Amtgard Household of Fighting Women.
• Lady Rapier
  Hosted by Yahoo Groups
• SCA Rose Companies
  The Rose Companies are resolved to better exalt the Virtues of Prowess, Courage, Honesty, Largess, Loyalty, Faith, Courtesy, and Franchise and to display said virtues in martial deeds, valiant acts, and grand presentation.
• The Girls Club
  A Forum for female heavy fighters in the SCA

 

 

· History

• Amazons
  by Wikipedia
• Christine de Pizan
  Not a female warrior, but wrote extensively about the arts of war in period.
• Frankish women warriors in Muslim Middle Eastern sources
• Gladiatrix
  All about Gladiatrix in History, Film, Literature and more!
• Great African Queens
  Not all warrior Queens, but a few like Candace and Hatshepsut
• Great Women Warriors in History, Myth, Legend, and Pop Fiction
  By Mike Sitko
• History of women in the military
  by Wikipedia
• Images of Period Women in Armor
  By SuGyong
• Iranian Warrior was Female
  DNA tests have shown the remains of a 2,000-year-old warrior in an Iranian tomb are those of a woman.
• Medieval Women & War
  Syllabus, Biblography, and Assorted works by Valerie Eads, Ph.D.
• Military and Warfare
  By Distinguished Women of Past and Present
• Shieldmaidens
  by Wikipedia
• Warrior Queen Buried in Lincolnshire Grave
  Experts have placed the Anglo-Saxon grave at around 410 C.E.
• Warrior Women
  By Norman J. Finkelshteyn
• Warrior Women of Eurasia
  by Jeannine Davis-Kimball
• Women as Warriors in History
  Brought to you by Lothene.org
• Women Knights in the Middle Ages
  Brought to you by Heraldica.org
• Women of Peace and War: The Roles of European Women at the Siege of Acre
  Brought to you by Atlantian A&S
• Women warriors from Amazon fought for Britain’s Roman army
  THE remains of two Amazon warriors serving with the Roman army in Britain have been discovered in a cemetery that has astonished archaeologists.

· Merchants

• Real Women Wear Armour Merchandise
  T-shirts, Stickers and more of this great design