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Faculty & Staff

Jeffrey L. Forgeng

Publications

Entries in Reference Works

• "Björn Breidvíkingakappi" and "Thorarinn svarti." Encyclopedia of Scandinavia in the Middle Ages. Ed. Phillip Pulsiano, Kirsten Wolf, and Donald K. Fry. New York and London: Garland, 1993. 49–50, 667–68.

Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journal Articles

• "Joachim Meyer: Encyclopédiste du Combat Médiéval." L'Art de la guerre 1:1 (Apr.-May 2002): 20-27.

• "The medieval swordsman: a 13th-century German fencing manuscript." Royal Armouries Yearbook 2 (1998): 129-36.

• "Upon the Viritoot: A Chaucerian Portmanteau?" English Language Notes 31:2 (December 1993): 6–14.

Conference Publications/Proceedings, Reviewed

• "Munday's Unruly Earl." In Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries. Ed. Lois D. Potter. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 1998. 63–76.

• "Encyclopedic Aspects of the Historical Dictionary and the Question of Context." in Dictionaries of Germanic Languages. A Survey of Current Lexicographical Projects ed. Karina van Dalen-Oskam et al. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997. 149–57.

Book Chapters

• (with Alex Kiermayer)"The Chivalric Art': German martial arts treatises of the Middle Ages and Renaissance." In The Cutting Edge: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Combat. Ed. Barry Molloy. Stroud, Glocs.: Tempus Books [in press: 2007].

• (with Cristina Bauer) "Arms, Armor, and the Artist." In Knights in Shining Armor: Myth and Reality 1450-1650. Ed. Ida Sinkevic. Piermont NH: Bunker Hill Publishing for the Allentown Art Museum, 2006. 36-55.

Books (including edited volumes and textbooks)

• Daily Life in Stuart England. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2007.

• Joachim Meyer's The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570. London: Greenhill Books; New York: Palgrave Macmillan,2006.

• The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile and Translation of Europe’s Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Royal Armouries MS I.33. Leeds: Royal Armouries Museum; Union City, CA: Chivalry Bookshelf, 2003.

• (with David Cram and Dorothy Johnston) Francis Willughby’s Book of Games: A Seventeenth-Century Treatise on Sports, Games, and Pastimes. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.

• The Age of Armor: The Higgins Armory Museum (exhibition catalogue). Virginia Beach: Donning Company, 2002.

• Daily Life in Medieval Europe. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press: 1999.

• Robin Hood: The Shaping of the Legend. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1998.

• Daily Life in Chaucer's England. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1995.

• Daily Life in Elizabethan England. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Book Reviews

• "In the Wake of the Plague" (book review). The Historian 65:2 (2003): 493-94.

• "The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought" (book review). The Historian 65:3 (2003): 747.

Presentations

Conference Presentations

• "Designer Steel: Armor as Fashion in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance." Symposium for Love and War: The Weaponized Woman, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, September 2006.

• "Swordplay and Shakespeare." Central Massachusetts Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, April 2006.

• "Paulus Hector Mair: A Study in the Interpretation of Early Martial Arts Texts." Armor Research Society, Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, October 2005.

• '"The Pen and the Sword': The Medieval and Early Modern Fechtbuch." International Congress of Medievalists. Kalamazoo, May 2004.

• "'Thise Wantoune Prestes': The Walpurgis Fechtbuch (Royal Armouries MS I.33)." Columbia University, New York, June 14, 2003.

• "Wrestling with the Masters: Interpreting Historical Martial Arts Treatises." Third International Western Martial Arts Workshop. Chicago, September 2002.

• Fence and Insensibility: Interpreting the Masters of Historical Martial Arts." European Historical Combat Symposium, Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds (England), August 2001.

• "The Walpurgis Fechtbuch." International Western Martial Arts Workshop. Toronto, October 2000.

• "The Robin Hood Games." 14th Annual Medieval Symposium. University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Toronto, April 1999.

• "Training in Swordfighting: A thirteenth-century German fencing manuscript." International Congress of Medievalists, Leeds (England), July 1996.

• "Munday's Unruly Earl." Modern Language Association, San Diego, December 1994.

• "Encyclopedic Aspects of the Historical Dictionary." International Congress of Medievalists, Leeds (England), June 1994.

• "Chivalric Games in the Life and Literature of Late Medieval England." International Congress of Medievalists, Kalamazoo, May 1994.

• "The Vikings Remembered. . . and Forgot." University of British Columbia Viking Workshop, Vancouver, November 1989.

• "Ge Heora Gereord Ne Cunnon. Mutual Intelligibility Between Old English and Old Norse." International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Durham, August 1989.

• "Principle and Practice of Old English Versecraft." International Congress of Medievalists, Kalamazoo, May 1987.

• "Bilingualism in Ninth to Eleventh Century England: Old English and Old Norse in Contact." Conférence sur le Pluralisme Linguistique au Moyen-Age, Montréal, May 1986.

Other Presentations

• Martial Arts of the Medieval Knight." Carol P. Dorian '79 Memorial Lecture in Art History. Lafayette College, April 2007.

• "Knights in Shining Armor: Image and Reality 1450-1650." Gallery Talk, Allentown Art Museum/Lafayette College (Art 340 Seminar), April 2007.

• "From Broadswords to Battledores: The Multifaceted Martial Arts of the Late Middle Ages." Medieval Studies Center Lecture Series, Loyola University of Chicago, November 2006.

• "Taking Up the Gauntlet: Thoughts toward a Theory of Play and Games." Interactive Media and Game Development Colloquium, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, September 2006.

• "Hamlet's Perilous Play of Rapiers." Shakespeare & Company Bankside Humanities Series. Lenox MA, August 2006.

• "Kingly Combat: The Field of Honor." Shakespeare & Company Bankside Humanities Series. Lenox MA, July 2005.

• "Fechtkunst: The Martial Arts in Medieval and Renaissance Germany." The Armor and Arms Club of New York, April 2005.

• "Engineering the Museum IQP: Experiences from the Higgins Armory." International and Global Studies Division Brown Bag Seminar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Nov. 11, 2004.

• "'Arms and the Man': Evolution and Meanings in the Age of Armor." Allentown Art Museum, April 2007; Evansville Museum of Art, History, and Science, March 2006; Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, Nov. 6 2004.

• "'The Chivalric Art': German Martial Arts Treatises of the Middle Ages and Renaissance." Humanarts Lecture Series, Assumption College, Worcester, September 2004; Fifth International Western Martial Arts Workshop,  Amsterdam, New York, October 2004.

• "Swordplay in Shakespeare." Shakespeare & Company Bankside Humanities Series. Lenox MA, July 2004.

• "Always on the Battlefield." Gallery presentation for Worcester Art Museum exhibition Samurai Spirit. Worcester, April 11, 2003.

• "'The Chivalric Art': German Martial Arts Treatises of the Middle Ages and Renaissance." Rhode Island Medieval Circle (Brown University). Providence, December 2002.

Works

Audio-Visual Recordings

• Falconry: The Medieval Art. Toronto Medieval Video Series (Toronto: Toronto Media Services, 1990).

Curated or Juried Exhibitions

• The Pen and the Sword: Martial Arts Treatises of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Higgins Armory Museum, October 2006-June 2007.

• "Now thrive the armourers": Arms and Armor in Shakespeare. Higgins Armory Museum, October 2004-September 2005. Subsequent tour to Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., summer 2008.

• Passage to India: The Arms and Armor of South Asia. Higgins Armory Museum, October 2003- June 2004.

• The Age of Armor. Higgins Armory Museum, February 2003-August 2003. Subsequent tour to 16 sites around the United States, March 2004-September 2008.

• Lords of the Rings: Two Millennia of Mail. Higgins Armory Museum, February-September 2002.

• Romance in Steel: The Heritage of Armor. Higgins Armory Museum, January-June 2001.

• A Double-Edged Weapon: The Sword as Icon and Artifact. Higgins Armory Museum, January-November 2000. Subsequent tour to 10 sites around the United States, scheduled 2009-10.

Performances (dance, dramatic, musical)

• 2006. History Channel. The Holy Lance.

• 2005. Ridley Scott et al. Kingdom of Heaven (DVD). 20^th Century Fox. (History vs. Hollywood segment).

• 2005. History Channel. History vs. Hollywood: Kingdom of Heaven.

• 2002. History Channel. Modern Marvels: Axes, Swords and Knives.

• 2001. History Channel. The Most (Kevlar, Mail, Armored Cars).

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