Jeffrey L. Forgeng

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Jeffrey L. Forgeng is Paul S. Morgan Curator at the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has published extensively on topics including daily life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Robin Hood legend, and the history of games, as well as medieval and Renaissance martial arts. Forgeng did his doctorate in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto specializing in medieval and Renaissance languages and cultural history, and was for many years an editor for the Middle English Dictionary.

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Translations

The following articles include translations by Jeffrey L. Forgeng.

• Gladiatoria group

HEMA publications

Jeffrey L. Forgeng has produced or contributed to the following books and journal articles.

Author

• Forgeng, Jeffrey L. (2003). The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile & Translation of Europe's Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Royal Armouries MS I.33 (Royal Armouries Monograph). Union City: Chivalry Bookshelf. ISBN 1-891448-38-2. (Corrigenda)
• Forgeng, Jeffrey L. (2012). The Illuminated Fightbook Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33. Extraordinary Editions. ISBN 978-0-9573046-0-4.
• Forgeng, Jeffrey L. (2012). "Owning the Art: The German Fechtbuch Tradition." The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe 1520-1630: 164-175. Ed. by Tobias Capwell. London: Paul Holberton. ISBN 978-0-900785-43-6.
• Forgeng, Jeffrey L. (2014). "Pietro Monte's Exercise and the Medieval Science of Arms." The Armorer's Art. Essays in honour of Stuart Pyhrr: 107-114. Ed. by Donald J. La Rocca.
• Forgeng, Jeffrey L. (2017). "The Martial Arts Treatise of Paulus Hector Mair." Die Kunst des Fechtens: 267-284. Ed. by Matthias Johannes Bauer; Elisabeth Vavra. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH. ISBN 978-3-8253-6699-5.
• Forgeng, Jeffrey L. (2018). The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: Royal Armouries MS I.33. Royal Armouries. ISBN 978-0948092855.
• Forgeng, Jeffrey L. (2021). Das Tower-Fechtbuch. Ein Meisterwerk der mittelalterlichen Kampfkunst. Damstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
• Singman, Jeffrey L. (1998). "The Medieval Swordsman: a 13th Century German Fencing Manuscript." Royal Armouries Yearbook 2: 129-136.

Translator

• Duarte I of Portugal (2016). The Book of Horsemanship by Duarte I of Portugal. Trans. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1783271030.
• Dupuis, Olivier (2016). "Joachim Meyer, free fencer, citizen of Strasbourg (?1537–1571)." The Art of Sword Combat: A 1568 German Treatise on Swordsmanship: 171-190. Trans. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. London: Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-47387-675-0.
• Lecküchner, Johannes (2015). The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Lecküchner. Trans. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781783270286.
• Mair, Paulus Hector (2025). Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Vol. 2: Dusack. Trans. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. Ed. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-61-3.
• Meyer, Joachim (2006). The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570 [U.K. Printing]. Trans. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 978-1-85367-643-7.
• Meyer, Joachim (2006). The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570 [U.S. Printing]. Trans. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-40397-092-0.
• Meyer, Joachim (2015). The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570 [2nd Edition]. Trans. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. London: Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-84832-778-8.
• Meyer, Joachim (2016). The Art of Sword Combat: A 1568 German Treatise on Swordsmanship. Trans. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. London: Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-47387-675-0.
• Monte, Pietro (2018). Pietro Monte's Collectanea: The Arms, Armour and Fighting Techniques of a Fifteenth-Century Soldier. Trans. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-78327-275-4.

Editor

• Mair, Paulus Hector (2024). Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Vol. 1: Longsword. Trans. by Jeff Tsay. Ed. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-59-0.
• Mair, Paulus Hector (2025). Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Vol. 2: Dusack. Trans. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. Ed. by Jeffrey L. Forgeng. Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-61-3.