About Richard Cullinan

Richard grew up in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, which is on the outskirts of Sydney. He studied for and achieved an Honours Degree in Applied Chemistry, and has been working in the pharmaceutical quality assurance field for the majority of his career. He currently resides in Sydney's inner west.

His Fencing background

Richard first formally studied fencing in 1997 under Peter Linich, Maestro di Scherma. Building on this classical foundation, he branched out into historical fencing systems, and is now the leading researcher and exponent of Renaissance Italian fencing systems within Australia, and recognised internationally for his research in Bolognese swordsmanship. He teach courses in Italian spada and companion devices (Bolognese swordsmanship), or Italian rapier and companion devices, and has given seminars in most major cities of Australia and New Zealand.

Richard is currently the designated instructor for Italian Swordsmanship for Stoccata School of Defence.

He is also active within the historical fencing community of the SCA (Kingdom of Lochac, Barony of Rowany), and was recognised as the first member of the Order of the White Scarf of Lochac, and as the first fencing laurel within Lochac.

About the Website

The website is a service provided to allow individuals and groups to post interpretations, transcriptions, translations and teaching curricula for the various historical fencing treatises.

This service is freely available to anyone, with one proviso. The work MUST be made available using the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Australia License. Reference to this licence, including identification of the authors, should be part of each book, however the bottom of each page will contain a reference to this licence.

I want the information to be available for people to build an understanding of the material. My hope is that this will enable the community to build upon the current knowledge to create a better understanding of the material. Furthermore, this approach is one I believe will allow for individuals to maintain an up to date interpretation of the treatises, and to more readily incorporate and foster our growing understanding.

If you wish to make use of the service, please contact me at info@renfence.com.au to establish an account.

Renaissaince Fence reserves the right to provide editorial corrections, however subject matter will remain under the control of the group or individuals responsible for each section.