What organizations exist to preserve and train in the historical (ie not recreational sparring) sword training of medieval Europe?


I found a few:
Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts (http://www.aemma.org/)

Pan-Historical European Martial Arts Society (http://www.phemas.com/)

Organizations

Association for Renaissance Martial Arts (http://www.thearma.org/)
Historical European Martial Arts Coalition (http://www.hemac.org/)
The Company of Maisters of the Science of Defence (http://www.maisters.demon.co.uk/)
Swordforum International (http://www.swordforum.com/) Schools

Aegis Swordfighting Academy (http://www.swordsmanship.net/)
Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts (http://www.aemma.org/), located in Toronto, Canada
Academy of European Swordsmanship (http://www.the-aes.org/), located in Edmonton, Calgary and Victoria (Canada)
Ars Gladii (http://www.arsgladii.at/)
Iron Door School of Arms (http://www.historicalfencing.com/)
The Chicago Swordplay Guild (http://chicagoswordplayguild.com/)
The Medieval European Martial Arts Guild (MEMAG) (http://memag.net/)
Schola Gladiatoria (http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/) - Located in London, Devon, Hampshire and Trondheim
Selohaar Fechtschule (http://www.selohaar.org/fechtschule) - Located in Oxford, CT, USA

Schools:

School of European Swordsmanship (http://www.swordschool.com/en/index.html), in Helsinki, Finland.
Hotspur School of Defence (http://www.historicalfencing.org/Hotspur/), in Alnwick, UK
The New York Historical Fencing Association (http://www.newyorklongsword.com/), near Brooklyn, NY

Best regards,

-Mark

Schola St. George (http://www.scholasaintgeorge.org/), who focus on Fiore dei Liberi. Some good short videos there as well.

-Mark

I don't know if this group have been 'logged' in the fora anywhere previously but I found their explanatory pages of what Historical European Swordsmanship was about to be well written and very readable:

http://www.ericwargo.com/sword/about/index.html.

Organizations

Association for Historical Fencing http://www.ahfi.org/

Schools

Martinez Academy of Arms http://www.martinez-destreza.com/
Academia Duellatoria (Portland and Medford Oregon)
Northwest Academy of Arms http://www.northwestacademyofarms.com/

Boar's Tooth Fight School (http://fightmedieval.com/) in Croydon, Folkestone and South London, UK. Top notch stuff.