Brian R. Price

Brian R. Price is an American author, editor, publisher, martial arts instructor of the Italian school of swordsmanship, reconstructive armorer, and member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Price originally founded The Chivalry Bookshelf in 1992 to publish Chronique, the Journal of Chivalry,[1] but eventually began publishing books about Western Martial Arts, arms and armor, and the subject of chivalry written or edited by other authors in addition to his own.[2]

Price is a co-founder and, until early 2011, was the long-time curriculum director of the Schola Saint George school of Historical European Martial Arts.[3] He is a Dissertation Fellow in history at the University of North Texas.[4]

Contents

Background

Price was graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in Political Science/Economics in 1990, and is enrolled at the University of North Texas as a Dissertation Fellow in history. He taught courses there in U.S. and world history as a Teaching Fellow from 2008 to 2010.[5][6][7]

Price had previously operated a small armory, Thornbird Arms, from 1984 to 1990,[8][9] and worked in the computer software, information technology and internet industries from 1995 to 2000.[10]

Western Martial Arts

Beginning about 1981,[11] Price's exposure to the Western Martial Arts developed through his participation in armored full-contact sport combat through the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) in Southern California, in which he participated under the SCA pseudonym of Brion Thornbird ap Rhys, eventually rising to the rank of King of the Kingdom of Caid in 1988.[12][13][14] In 1984, Price founded a small armory, Thornbird Arms, directed at the SCA's market for functional historically-accurate armor, which he operated until 1990.[15] In recognition of his expertise in "armouring" and his research into the historical combat system of Fiore dei Liberi, the SCA kingdom of Ansteorra elevated Price to its "Order of the Laurel" in 1986[16] and, in 1987, he was elevated to the SCA's "Order of the Chivalry" (KSCA) for his skill in SCA Armored Combat by the reigning King and Queen of the Kingdom of Caid.[17] Price was awarded the "Queen's Cypher" and the "Princess's Favor" in 1992 by the Kingdom of the West, the "Queen's Guard - Knight Counselor" in 1998, as well as the "Defender of the West" in 2000.[18][19] Price is also a warranted Armored Combat Authorizing Marshal "At Large" of the Kingdom of Ansteorra.[20][21]

In addition to producing historically-accurate armor for SCA members, Price wrote the instruction book Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction.[22]

In the 1990s, Price was also instrumental in establishing the Company of Saint George, a "Tournament Company" within the SCA dedicated to staging historically-accurate tournaments and pas d'armes in an SCA context.[23] In 2000, a part of the Company of Saint George developed into the Schola Saint George school of Western Martial Arts,[24] co-founded by Price and Robert Holland in Union City, California.[25] Price directed the Schola Saint George, expanding it to Texas and other regions of the United States and abroad, up until his resignation in March, 2011.

Under Price's impetus, the Schola Saint George organized the first annual Schola Saint George Medieval Swordsmanship Symposium in May, 2001. It was one of the first conferences in the United States dedicated to bringing together scholars and practitioners of the Historical European Martial Arts, and the largest of its kind up to that time.[26]

In 2004, Price was inducted into the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame as a Medieval Weapons Master.[27] He is also a member of the American Teachers Association of the Martial Arts.[28]

Writing, editing and publishing

Price's early pamphlet-length monographs, such as The Book of the Tournament,[29] Historical Forms of the Tournament for SCA Combat: History, Resources, Examples,[30] and Arming Yourself in the Style of the 14th Century,[31] were written principally for the Society for Creative Anachronism (sometimes under his SCA pseudonym "Sir Brion Thornbird"[32][33]) and were sometimes published by the SCA as well.[34]

In 1996 or 1997, Price also contributed two articles, "On Chivalric Virtues" and "Winning and Losing," to Facets of Knighthood, an anthology of poetry, stories and articles concerning knighthood and chivalry edited by a fellow SCA member, "Cormac the Traveller" (a/k/a Peter Martin), and published by Outlaw Press.[35][36]

Price republished his 1991 monograph, The Book of the Tournament, as a book under his The Chivalry Bookshelf imprint in 1996[37] and, again, in 2002.[38]

In 1999, as a monograph, and, in 2001, as a book, Price likewise self-published his "translation into modern English" of Ramon Lull's Book of Knighthood & Chivalry, which became widely used as a textbook.[39][40] The book was republished again in 2002 as a paperback by The Chivalry Bookshelf and Boydell & Brewer[41] and again in 2004 by The Chivalry Bookshelf and Greenhill Press.[42]

Price's only independently published book, Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction, was published by Paladin Press in 2000.[43]

In 2001, Price published the first U.S. edition of Bengt Thordeman's 1939-1940 two-volume Armour from the Battle of Wisby, 1361 as a single volume,[44][45] and Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship: Sigmund Ringeck's Commentaries on Johannes Liechtenauer's Verse, translated and interpreted by Christian Henry Tobler.[46]

The Chivalry Bookshelf published several more notable works by other authors concerning the history of chivalry, arms and armor or Western Martial Arts in 2002, including:

That same year Price also contributed an article, "In the Lists: The Arthurian Influence in Modern Tournaments of Chivalry," to an independently published anthology, King Arthur in Popular Culture, edited by Elizabeth S. Sklar and Donald L. Hoffman.[61]

From 2003 through 2006, The Chivalry Bookshelf continued publishing notable books concerning the history of chivalry and Western Martial Arts, including:

In 2007, Price self-published Fiore dei Liberi's Sword in two hands: a full-color training guide for Medieval longsword based on Fiore dei Liberi's Fior di Battaglia, which is also the most recent book published by The Chivalry Bookshelf.[83] In February, 2011, Price announced that "there will be no further Bookshelf titles except for my own, and there are only three of these planned, if they ever come out."[84]

In July 2010, Price published in Knight Templar Magazine, "Isn't Chivalry Dead?", a shortened version of the article he had published earlier in Chronique.[85]

Controversies

Allegations of Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement

2009 Allegations

In 2009, Dr. Yuri Cowan, a postdoctoral Research Fellow concentrating on "nineteenth-century poetry, historiography, medievalism, and the history of the book" at Ghent University, Belgium, and a member of the William Morris Society, edited the Kelmscott edition of The Ordination of Knighthood for the "Morris Online Edition," a web-based scholarly edition of the works of William Morris published at the University of Iowa Libraries website.[86][87][88][89][90]

In the Headnote: Introduction, Cowan accused Price of plagiarizing William Morris's translation of the Ordène de Chevalerie in Price's 2001 The Chivalry Bookshelf edition:[91]

But perhaps the most striking instance of the afterlife of this volume is a little book published by The Chivalry Bookshelf in 2001, entitled Ramon Lull’s Book of Knighthood and Chivalry and the anonymous Ordene [sic] de Chevalerie (“translated by William Caxton / Rendered into modern English by Brian R. Price”). This book is avowedly a work of enthusiasm by Price, who writes in his introduction that “with the growing convergence between students of chivalric lore, reenactors, Western martial artists, and medievalists – the time seems right to release this new version. I hope it brings much pleasurable contemplation and provokes thought along [sic] what it meant – and what it means – to be a knight” (iii). There is no reason why Price should have included both works together, except that William Morris had once done so in his Kelmscott edition of 1892-3. In fact, a close look at Price’s edition reveals that he has stolen Morris’ translation verbatim for the entire text of the Ordène, and gives Morris no credit whatsoever. Indeed, he does not mention Morris even once throughout his entire introduction, nor anywhere in the book [5]. Although Morris’ work is certainly in the public domain, Price’s appropriation of it without attribution is a decidedly unchivalrous piece of plagiarism. And yet this lately-pirated edition, too, is an example of the long reach of Morris’ influence in unexpected places – as a translator, as a medievalist, and as a shaper of the canon.

[5] In his introduction, Price repeatedly emphasises the “anonymity” of the Ordène. It is possible that, owing to Morris’s rather medieval humility in not appending his own authorial name to the translation of the Ordène, Price understood the translation of the Ordène in the Kelmscott volume to be Caxton’s – suggesting at least that Morris’s medievalising idiom was convincing!

2011 Allegations

In March, 2011, Will McLean, the illustrator,[92][93] author[94] and independent medieval scholar,[95][96] accused Price of plagiarizing and infringing his copyright on certain of McLean's illustrations for Dr. Elizabeth Bennett's translation of King Rene's Tournament Book by reprinting them without credit or permission in Price's Chronique No. 10.[97][98] McLean also accused Price of plagiarizing and infringing the copyright of the late British scholar Claude Blair, "one of the foremost authorities on historic European metalwork, especially arms and armour,"[99] in the same volume of Chronique.[100]

Allegations by The Chivalry Bookshelf Authors

In early 2011, allegations were made by several of the authors published by The Chivalry Bookshelf that Price and his wife, Ann Price, had withheld royalty payments on their books, in some cases since 2003.[101][102] The controversy, which acquired international notoriety,[103][104][105][106] brought about Price's resignation from the leadership of the Schola Saint George.[107]

Forfeiture of Corporate Charter by the Schola Saint George

On August 7, 2009, the Secretary of State of Texas forfeited the charter of the Schola Saint George (SSG) due to SSG's failure to pay its state franchise taxes and to revive its forfeited privileges within 120 days of said forfeiture while Price was serving as its registered agent.[108] A Copy of the Certificate of Forfeiture was publicly posted on February 22, 2011 to the same Armour Archive thread on which allegations by several The Chivalry Bookshelf authors had been made.[109] The SSG Board of Directors thanked those who had brought this information to their attention in the same announcement in which Price's resignation from SSG was announced.[110]

See also

Historical European Martial Arts

Western Martial Arts

Italian school of swordsmanship

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  69. ^ "Fabris, Salvator and Tomasso Leoni, tr. The Art of Dueling: 17th Century Rapier Combat as Taught by Salvator Fabris. Union City, Calif: The Chivalry Bookshelf, 2004. Print". Library of Congress. http://lccn.loc.gov/2006355089. Retrieved April 23, 2011. ISBN 1891448234. 
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