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Experimental Archaeology and Ancient Arts, Martial and Domestic
500 BC to 1815 AD
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Projects
Over the years, we've taken on a number of projects as reenactors. Most of them take the form of hosting "events," the bread and butter of living history.
Event hosting requires time, money, historical research, and a keen sense of drama as well as knowledge of the local ground.
Without event hosting, there is no living history. Members of Hoplologia have directed hundreds of events since the late 1970's, ranging in size from a half-dozen people to two thousand reenactors and fifteen thousand spectators; and at every level of authenticity from painstaking reconstructions of individual lives to historical pageants with recreated battles and large military camps.
More recently, Hoplologia was founded to pursue other projects in living history--although we will continue to run events.
Now we're starting to investigate the possibilities of cooperating with mainstream historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists to carry out "experiments" within controlled conditions. Some of these may take the form of "immersion" events that require extensive attention to material culture, but others might be performed in jeans and a tee shirt, or even in sport or protective gear to avoid injury--whether casting bronze or trying to perform the Lacedemonian Countermarch in a phalanx.
In the attached links, you can look at some of our favorite projects. If you have a project of your own, you should suggest it to us here. And of course, if you are interested in joining, you should contact us.
Hoplologia is a registered not-for-profit organization based in Canada. Your tax-deductible donations are appreciated!