Our report for the International Centre of Martial Arts for Youth Development and Engagement under the auspices of UNESCO (level 2 centre) is now published, as a book and as a downloadable file.
Daniel Jaquet, Audrey Tuaillon Demésy, and Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis. (c) ICM, South Korea, 2020. ISBN 979-11-965532-5-8
The reports attempts an international overview of the communities today, based on two surveys (one qualitative, one quantitative). It offers as well critical views on elements of definition of HEMA, a short history of the movement, an overview of the primary sources, and some discussion about the main directions of the movement.
Written by academics with expertise in history, sociology and arms and armour studies, but also HEMA practitioners involved into HEMA organisations, this report is however not adressed to the HEMA communities, nor to the academics, but to the general public. We hope it will be considered as one more step towards the recognition of HEMA as a whole.
We thank the ICM for providing us with the opportunity, IFHEMA to have let us use their communication channels, but foremost the HEMA practitioners and organisations who engaged with us through our surveys, as well as the colleagues who helped.
Out of the quantitative survey, we managed to get an interactive map with HEMA groups worldwide. Check it out on Infogram. Of course, we do not claim that our dataset is exhaustive, but it gives a pretty nice overview.
Happy reading! If you did not manage to get the file through the Korean website, you can download it here.