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Combat Demonstration, Balingup Medieval Carnivale, 2012

A photograph of a medieval-style combat demonstration at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale, 2012.

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Fighting Demonstration at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale, 2012

A photograph of a medieval-style combat demonstration at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale, 2012.

Tags: Armour, Balingup, Balingup Medieval Carnivale, battle, carnival, carnivale, chivalry, combat, demonstration, display, Donnybrook, fair, fayre, festival, fight, fighting, knight, knighthood, knights, medieval, Perth, re-creation, recreation, Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup, sword, swords, tournament, WA, weaponry, weapons, Western Australia

Full Metal Jousting: Rod Walker

This online biography of Rod Walker appears on the History.com website for the television show Full Metal Jousting. Rod, a founding member of the International Jousting Association, is one of the coaches on the show. The show is a televised jousting…

Tags: Armour, Bathurst, combat, Full Metal Jousting, helmet, History.com, International Jousting Association, jousting, knight, lance, New South Wales, NSW, Rod Walker, shield, television

'Close Combat'

This is one of several â€˜battleâ€™ images from the NEMAS Easter Gathering in Armidale, NSW, in 2008. A number of medieval re-creation enthusiasts are engaged in close combat. They are armed with swords and what look to be mostly kite…

Detail of a mounted Knightâ€™s leg at Ironfest

This close-up image of a mounted knightâ€™s leg was taken at Ironfest in 2008 by the photographer Richard Taylor. It reveals a blend of contemporary customs and traditional workmanship, for modern re-enactments of jousting require utmost…

Tags: â€˜Ironfest, â€™ joust, Armor, Armour, body armour, caparison, combat, Full Tilt, greave, heraldry, horse, jousting, kneecup, knight, Lithgow, New South Wales, NSW, plate armour, poleyns, re-enactment, reenactment, Richard Taylor

Combat Demonstration at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale

A photograph of a medieval-style combat demonstration at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale, 2010.

Tags: Armour, Balingup, Balingup Medieval Carnivale, battle, carnival, carnivale, chivalry, combat, demonstration, display, Donnybrook, fair, fayre, festival, fight, fighting, knight, knighthood, knights, medieval, Perth, re-creation, recreation, Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup, sword, swords, tournament, WA, weaponry, weapons, Western Australia

â€˜Soldier at a Medieval Faireâ€™

This is a â€˜frozenâ€™ combat image taken at the Blacktown Medieval Fayre by photographer Richard Taylor in 2011. It depicts a participant dressed in a Norman style helmet complete with a chainmail collar known as an avential or camal, and…

â€˜The old soldierâ€™ at the Blacktown Medieval Fayre

This is one of a series of pre-action photographs taken by photographer Richard Taylor at Nurragingy Reserve in 2011. It shows an â€˜old warriorâ€™ displaying steely determination to survive a potentially dangerous encounter. The subject of…

Tags: Armor, Armour, Arms, Blacktown Medieval Fayre, byrnie, chain mail, chainmail, coif, combat, fair, haubergeon, hauberk, helmet, medieval costume, New South Wales, Norman style helmet, NSW, Nurragingy Reserve, re-enactment, soldier, Sydney, war, warfare

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