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 " , 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 . 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 . He is a Dissertation Fellow in history at the University of North Texas . 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 . Price had previously operated a small armory , Thornbird Arms , from 1984 to 1990 , and worked in the computer software , information technology and internet industries from 1995 to 2000 . Western Martial Arts . Beginning about 1981 , 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 . 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 . 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 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 . 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 . Price is also a warranted Armored Combat Authorizing Marshal " At Large " of the Kingdom of Ansteorra . In addition to producing historically - accurate armor for SCA members , Price wrote the instruction book " Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction " . 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 . In 2000 , a part of the Company of Saint George developed into the Schola Saint George school of Western Martial Arts , co - founded by Price and Robert Holland in Union City , California . 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 . In 2004 , Price was inducted into the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame as a Medieval Weapons Master . He is also a member of the American Teachers Association of the Martial Arts . Writing , editing and publishing . Price ' s early pamphlet - length monographs , such as " The Book of the Tournament " , " Historical Forms of the Tournament for SCA Combat : History , Resources , Examples " , and " Arming Yourself in the Style of the 14th Century " , were written principally for the Society for Creative Anachronism ( sometimes under his SCA pseudonym " Sir Brion Thornbird " ) and were sometimes published by the SCA as well . 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 . Price republished his 1991 monograph , " The Book of the Tournament " , as a book under his The Chivalry Bookshelf imprint in 1996 and , again , in 2002 . 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 . The book was republished again in 2002 as a paperback by The Chivalry Bookshelf and Boydell & Brewer and again in 2004 by The Chivalry Bookshelf and Greenhill Press . Price ' s only independently published book , " Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction " , was published by Paladin Press in 2000 . 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 , and " Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship : Sigmund Ringeck ' s Commentaries on Johannes Liechtenauer ' s Verse " , translated and interpreted by Christian Henry Tobler . 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 . 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 . 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 . " 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 " . 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 . 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 : 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 ! Dr . Cowan ' s complaint is somewhat misleading , however . The cover of the book and the title page both name the book as " Ramon Lull ' s Book of Knighthood and Chivalry & the Anonymous Ordene de Chevalerie " without reference to any translators . The endicia lists " Ramon Lull ' s Book of Knighthood and Chivalry / Translated by William Caxton / Rendered into modern English by Brian R . Price . " The back cover includes a paragraph containing the following : " As a bonus , the editors have included the 12th century anonymous " Ordene de Chevalerie , " translated into English by William Morris . " There is no reference to Mr . Price in the paragraph . There is no implication anywhere in the work that Mr . Price did anything other than transcribe a work in the public domain . 2011 Allegations . In March , 2011 , Will McLean , the illustrator , author and independent medieval scholar , 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 " . 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 , " in the same volume of " Chronique " . 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 . The controversy , which acquired international notoriety , brought about Price ' s resignation from the leadership of the Schola Saint George . 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 . 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 . 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 . See also . Historical European Martial Arts Western Martial Arts Italian school of swordsmanship