About Me
I have 2-4 basic areas of interest/research: history, languages, fashion, and w.m.a. (western martial arts). I say "2-4" because they all too easily overlap and influence each other. To be far more specific, in my reenactment efforts, I have developed two personae: A) 1470's Hispano-Italian (Raimundo de Cabrera de la frontera) and B) 110's B.C.E. Germano-Celtic, i.e. tribal Belgium just before the Romans arrive (Fridu Gaisamunths). For those unfamiliar with the w.m.a. community/term, I teach 15th century Italian longsword and 13th century German sword-&-buckler at a campus club called O.E.H. at Millersville University, PA. My primary persona, the "Spaniard-trying-to-be-an-Italian", is a member of a light cavalry unit of the Hermandad (urban militia, operating much like the medieval equivalent of the 18th century concept of "minute-man") of his Balearic island of Cabrera. As such, his role of light cavalry is particularly characteristic of perhaps the greatest of Iberian military traditions, guerrilla warfare; with emphasis on the Hispano-Moorish "a la jinete" style of cavalry, as inherited from Arabic military traditions carried over from NW Africa. Essentially, my secondary persona is entirely irrelevant to this website, as cavalry was virtually unknown in tribal Germanic lands, let alone developed to such a fine degree as found in Moslem Spain by contrast. I should also mention that while I have effectively no firsthand/physical experience with horses, in general, I would like to think I can at least offer some extensive discussions, documented insights, etc., in all matters pertaining to equestrian arts of tactics and strategy of the many kingdoms/taifas of what is today Spain. I will finish by leaving you one example: while the norm of most/all western European armies of the Low Gothic Era was a concentration on a tiny core of heavy cavalry with the other 70-90% being those too poor to provide both mount and full armour, i.e. infantry levy, contemporary Iberian armies tended to have a polar opposite ratio, with a typical core of 60-70% light cavalry and a fairly strong tradition of very well armoured infantry instead; the latter relegated primarily to static support positions of strategic sally points on the battlefield, field encampments, and in bridge battles perhaps.
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