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A church cat rests near a window from one section of the Lalibela complex to another.

Annette talks to a young visitor about  the differences between the arming sword and the longsword, while another child handles a helmet behind her.

Holding the tips for safety, Trevor allows visiting schoolchildren to hold blunt AEMMA training weapons. Historically, and arming sword would weigh between two and three pounds. The arming swords AEMMA uses for practice (made by Toronto swordmaker Charles Jevons, based upon the Royal Armories MS I.33 sword) have aircraft aluminum blades, allowing a thicker profile (less dangerous) for the same balance and weigh in a 2.75 pounds.

AEMMA student Trevor demonstrates some of the finer points of the dagger as a weapon to interested schoolcchildren visiting the ROM during the March Break presentation.

Trevor helping a small child try out the great helm.

Shots from the Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts‘ display at the Royal Ontario Museum‘s ‘Medieval Madness’ program for March break schoolchildren. Our booth put on displays of historical European fencing (after the 15th-century treatise of Fiori de Liberi) and allowed children to handle practive weapons and reproductions of arms and armor.