Borgias and Longswords

Short newsletter for you this week, just wanted to tell you that I had the opportunity to guest star on my favorite podcast, Murderhobos. It’s a history podcast that’s no so secretly about how the idea of “manliness” changes over time. I got to hop on a few months ago to talk about the Borgias, early sixteenth century dueling culture, and my book, “Bolognese Longsword for the Modern Practitioner”.

You can listen to the episode here, or on your favorite podcast app: https://sites.libsyn.com/411899/special-episode-borgias-and-bolognese-longsword-with-arik-mendelevitz?fbclid=IwY2xjawMWtrxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFRNEtGeHVaRlhTNDhwTTdKAR5XCSZerF9lWDfbH471rhpSgLg8okho6WY2l7qSFq-wg28xhR2eY-bq_K2qtA_aem_rOpD0LV3dLTzYIJpsaYjNA

If you want to take a look at the diagram I drew up in order to make sense of all the different characters and how they relate, you can see it for yourself here: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVLr1V3xc=/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMWt3pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgYU6C_uZyHkSnnpMFzMqCQ-nH1Jri3O7AaG8zjTNjUg5jkSaPck6sU4JWYO_aem_e_ie2giBhUr2MA2ZtZWxng

Be back next week with some more in depth writing for you.