tatramatra t1_j6nearb wrote
That's not "mixed-gender fight club" those are pictures of "trial by combat" or in other words, judicial duels where legal disputes were to be settled by duels ordered by the court.
As women were considered to be at the disadvantage in combat, men were to be handicapped in duels with women to make fight more "fair".
Pictures are from a fighting manual supposed to teach people how to fight these trials.
BillHicksScream t1_j6oa95a wrote
LOL. This was centuries before apparently and the article even brings in a historian to dispel such assumptions specifically.
Says so much about reality: we can put words right in front of someone, bit they might ignore them in explaining them.
eedewah t1_j6ok1ed wrote
What? The article explicitly disagrees with you. According to the historians, Talhoffer was covering his historic bases by including them.
> Says so much about reality: we can put words right in front of someone, bit they might ignore them in explaining them.
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