Ken's publication credits include everything from speculative fiction to scholarly translations and academic journal articles to mass-market magazines—plus websites, anthologies, countercultural media projects, a series on the history of love and sex, and, of course, books. He has written many works for hire; crafted book proposals; and worked as a project editor, developmental editor, and copyeditor on encyclopedias, books, websites, and magazines. His particular talent is accurately conveying complex technical, historical, and scientific ideas to a non-specialist audience.
Following are Ken's popular-audience publications. For his academic publications, please see his Scholarship page, and for his popular-audience only publications see this page
Books:
Untitled sourcebook on history and philosophy of time. New York: Italica Press, forthcoming.
Sources on history and philosophy of timekeeping
Three Bâton Manuals. Self-published: Lulu.com, 2020.
Reference book for use in my fencing classes.
On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. (errata here)
The Art of the Rapier. Staten Island: SKA Swordplay Books, 2020.
Instructional book for fencing in an early 17th century style
Monument. San Diego: Canterbury Classics/Thunder Bay Press (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2020.
The four presidents depicted by Gutzon Borglum on Mt. Rushmore and the history of the monument.
Flowers of Battle, Vol III: Florius de Arte Luctandi. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press, 2019.
Translation of BnF MS Lat 11269 with extensive scholarly introduction
Game of Thrones and the Medieval Art of War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.
Popular-audience treatment not just of the TV/book series, but a "chocolate-covered" book about of real medieval history highlighting not just warfare, but women's roles and diversity.
Co-editor with Michael A. Cramer, “Can These Bones Come to Life?”: Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation. Proceedings of the Oakeshott and Higgins sessions from the International Medieval Congress, Volume I: Historical European Martial Arts. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press, 2014.
Conference proceedings
The Art of the Two-Handed Sword: A Translation of Francesco Alfieri's Lo Spadone with a Guide to Modern Practice. Staten Island, NY: SKA Swordplay Books, 2011.
Translation and instructional guide
The Knightly Art of Battle. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011.
Popular-audience work on Fiore dei Liberi's 1410 Fior di Battaglia, MS Ludwing XV 13 in the Getty's collection
Career Launcher: Education. New York: Ferguson, 2011/Checkmark 2012.
Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise. New York: Italica Press, 2009.
Translation of Camillo Agrippa's 1553 Treatise on the Science of Arms with extensive scholarly introduction. Revised edition, 2014.
Creative Nonfiction:
"An Update Concerning the Coronavirus Outbreak from Your University's Vice President of Academic Affairs." Timothy McSweeneys Internet Tendency, 2020.
"A Note Concerning the Coronavirus Outbreak from Your University's Vice President of Academic Affairs." Timothy McSweeneys Internet Tendency, 2020.
"That's Farkin' Right!" New York Press, June 13, 2007.
“My First Date at Phony Island.” New York Press, February 16, 2005.
“Holy Blood, Holy Grail.” New York Press July 14, 2004.
“Random Passages Culled from Novels I Edited While Working at a Vanity Press.” In “Lists.” McSweeneys.net, 2004.
“Ostrim.” In “New Food.” Timothy McSweeneys Internet Tendency, 2004.
“Rovespeak Lexicon.” In Billionaires for Bush: Ruling the World for Fun and Profit. New York: Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2004.
Fiction:
"The Screwhead Files." (Novella and other materials in Neal Stephenson and Nicolle Galland's shared-world project, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.) Bound, 2017.
“Victor Victus.” Adventures of Sword and Sorcery. No. 7 (2000), p. 64.
Online Columns and Public History:
"Medievalisms." Medievalists.net, 2018–present.
Essays on Public Medievalist, 2018–present.
"Academic Politics." The Faster Times, 2009–2012.
"A History of Single Life." Nerve.com, 2005–2010.
Websites:
CorporateMofo.com, 1999–2005
Pioneering, lauded, but now defunct countercultural e-zine
Canterbury Classics Book Introductions:
Writings of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2022.
Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2020.
Barack Obama Speeches. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2020.
Works of Jack London. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2020.
Novels of Jane Austen. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2019.
Poems of Robert Frost. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2019.
Ancient Greek Philosophers. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2018.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2018.
U.S. Constitution and Other Writings. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2017.
H.P. Lovecraft Tales of Horror. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2017.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2016.
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2015.
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2014.
The Divine Comedy. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2013.
The Arabian Nights. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2011.
Grimms' Fairy Tales. San Diego: Canterbury Classics (Printers Row Publishing Group), 2011.
Professional Online Publications:
"Hide the Salome." Jewcy.com, 2007.
"Frum Seeking Frum." Jewcy.com, 2006.
"War Support." Freezerbox.com, 2004.
“Random Passages Culled from Novels I Edited While Working at a Vanity Press.” In “Lists.” McSweeneys.net, 2004.
“Ostrim.” In “New Food.” McSweeneys.net, 2004.
"The Society for Creative Anachronism." Disinfo.org, 2004.
“Daggers of the Mind: Towards a Historiography of Fencing.” The Association for Historical Fencing (www.ahfi.org), 1998.
“The Other Wild West: Fencing in New York in the 1880s and After.” The Association for Historical Fencing (www.ahfi.org), 1999.
“Review: European Helmets, 1450-1650: Treasures from the Reserve Collection.” The Association for Historical Fencing (www.ahfi.org), 1999.
“Review: The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe by Sydney Anglo.” The Association for Historical Fencing (www.ahfi.org), 1999.
“Review: Medieval Combat.” The Association for Historical Fencing (www.ahfi.org), 1999.
“Interview with Brian Price.” The Association for Historical Fencing (www.ahfi.org), 1999.
“Getting to the Point: The European Art of Fencing.” FightingArts.com, 2001.
“It’s All in the Timing: Concepts of Timing in Combative Italian Swordsmanship.” FightingArts.com, 2001.
“It’s All in the Timing: Concepts of Timing in Combative Italian Swordsmanship.” The Association for Historical Fencing (www.ahfi.org), 2001. (reprint)
“Getting to the Point: The European Art of Fencing.” The Journal of Western Martial Art (www.ejmas.com), 2001. (reprint)
“Daggers of the Mind: Towards a Historiography of Fencing.” The Journal of Western Martial Art (www.ejmas.com), 2001. (reprint)
“Western Martial Arts Workshop 2001.” The Association for Historical Fencing (www.ahfi.org), 2002.
“Swords of Western Martial Arts.” FightingArts.com, 2002.
“Medieval Swordsmanship, by John Clements.” FightingArts.com, 2002. (review)
Academic Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“Quantizing the Problematic: Applying Statistical Methods to Popular Medievalisms.” Perspicuitas May 2022.
“Difference and Exclusion.” In A Cultural History of Sport Vol. 2: A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age ed. Wray Vamplew, John McClelland, and Mark Dyreson. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. (Under embargo; please email for a PDF)
"Liberal Arts for Social Change." Humanities 2020, 9(3), 98.
“Fencing, Martial Sport, and Working-Class Culture in Early Modern Germany: The Case of Strasbourg” (with Olivier Dupuis). Journal of Medieval Military History 16, 2019.
"On the Art of Fighting: A Humanist Translation of Fiore dei Liberi’s Flower of Battle Owned by Leonello D’Este." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 6.1, 2018.
“The Italian School of Fencing: Art, Science, and Pedagogy.” In A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Fightbooks, ed. Timothy Dawson, Daniel Jacquet, and Karin Verelst. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
“Victor Victus: Bilingualism, Biculturalism, and the Medieval Frontier.” In Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age, ed. Albrecht Classen. New York: De Gruyter, 2016.
“Time and Timekeeping” (with Denis Casey), “Weapons, Warfare, Siege Machinery, and Training in Arms,” and “Chivalry and Knighthood.” Book chapters in Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages, ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2015
“The Number of Motion: Camillo Agrippa’s Geometrical Fencing and the Enumeration of the Body.” Journal of the Northern Renaissance, Winter 2014.
“The Medieval Experience of Time: Aristotle, Universals, and Technologies” and “Fiore dei Liberi: Texts and Contexts.” In “Can These Bones Come to Life?”: Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation. Proceedings of the Oakeshott and Higgins sessions from the International Medieval Congress, Volumes I and II, ed. Ken Mondschein and Michael Cramer. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press, 2014.
"Notes on Bibliothèque Nationale MS Lat. 11269, Florius de Arte Lutandi." Arms and Armour 8:2 (2011).
“Future-Spectives.” Sixteenth Century Society Journal 40:1 (Spring, 2009).
Essay on digital humanities and the changing direction of scholarship.
“Multiple Factors.” The Independent Scholar 19:4 (Fall, 2005).
Essay on the difficulties of publishing academic and non-academic nonfiction.
Encyclopedia Articles:
“Exploration and Colonization.” In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. (Robert Bjork, ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
"Metrosexual." In Dictionary of American History, Dynamic Reference (Gary Cross, ed.). Detroit: Gale Group, Inc., 2009.
“Love, Western Notions of.” In The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Maryanne Cline Horowitz, ed.). Detroit: Gale Group, Inc., 2004. (with Vern Bullough)
“Meme.” In The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Maryanne Cline Horowitz, ed.). Detroit: Gale Group, Inc., 2004.
“Sex Toys.” Article in Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
Popular History and Nonfiction Articles:
Contributor, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Weird Canada. New York: Portable Press, 2013.
"How to Teach Fencing." Tournaments Illuminated, Winter 2013.
“Surpassing the Love of Women: Male Homosexuality in the Pre-Modern World.” Renaissance Vol. 9, No 6, 2004.
“A Field Guide to Buying Armor.” Renaissance Vol. 9, No 5, 2004.
“An Interview with Armorer Brian Price.” Renaissance Vol. 9, No 5, 2004.
“The Secret History of the Holy Grail.” Renaissance. Vol. 8, No. 5, p. 18.
“Racing Toward the Apocalypse: Calculating the Coming of ‘End Times.’ ” Mysteries, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 7.
“Anton LaVey Unmasked.” Mysteries, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 54.
“The Noble Knights of Noble Cause.” Renaissance. Vol. 8, No. 4, p. 36.
“Command and Conquer: The Medieval Warrior.” Renaissance. Vol. 8, No. 4, p. 41.
“Russian Stone May Prove Dark Ages Not So Dark After All.” Mysteries. Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 15.
“The Mysterious Treasures of Rosslyn Chapel.” Mysteries. Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 31.
“Prince Henry Sinclair: American Explorer?” Mysteries. Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 36. (sidebar)
“The Mysterious Templar Treasure.” Mysteries. Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 38. (sidebar)
“The Norse Roots of Democracy.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 1, p. 62.
“Tournament Productions: Full-Contact Swordfighting.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 2, p. 22.
“Justin Tausig: Modern Fencer” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 2, p. 24.
“Ramon Martinez: Maestro de Esgrima.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 2, p. 40. (interview)
“The Riddle of Steel: The Neophyte’s Guide to Buying a Sword.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 2, p. 61.
“Thor the Barbarian: A Mythic Figure in Modern Times.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 3, p. 14.
“The Greatest Minds of the Age.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 3, p. 42. (co-author)
“Ahmed Abdur Rashid: Naqshabandi Sufi.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 3, p. 72. (interview)
“Death in the Middle Ages.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 4., p. 35.
“Funerary Sculpture of the Renaissance.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 4., p. 37. (sidebar)
“The Top Millennial Movements of the Middle Ages.” Renaissance. Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 38. (sidebar)
“The Deadly Marching Drum.” Renaissance. Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 49. (sidebar)
“China’s Great Explorer.” Renaissance. Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 93.
“Of Hobbits and Heroes.” Collector Editions. Vol. 28, No. 3 (May/June 2000), p. 66.
“Life in a Medieval University.” Renaissance. Vol. 5 No. 3, p. 24.
“The Celebrations of Twelfth Night.” Renaissance. Vol. 5 No. 4, p. 40.
“Destriers, Derring-Do, and Devotion: Behind the Scenes at the MSR Jousting Team.” Renaissance. Vol. 6, No. 3, p. 51.
“The Wild, Wild East.” Hammerterz Forum. Vol. 5, No. 2/3 (August 1999), p. 5.
“Driving Obsession.” Collector Editions. Vol. 27, No. 7 (December 1999), p. 46.
“The Traveler’s Guide to Pennsic War.” Renaissance. Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 47.
“Advice for the Novice Campaigner.” Renaissance. Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 49. (sidebar)
“So You Want to Be a Swordsman?” Renaissance. Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 16.
“The Society for Creative Anachronism: Re-enacting the Middle Ages.” Renaissance. Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 7.
“Martial Arts in the SCA.” Renaissance. Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 9. (sidebar)
Academic Book Reviews:
Review of David Crouch, The Chivalric Turn. Speculum, forthcoming.
Review of Terminiello and Pendragon, The Art of Fencing: The Forgotten Discourse of Camillo Palladini. Renaissance Quarterly, forthcoming.
Review of Tobias Capwell, Armour of the English Knight 1400–1450. De Re Militari, 2018.
Review of B. Ann Tlulsty, The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany. De Re Militari, 2014.
Review of Tobias Capwell, The Queen of Weapons. De Re Militari, 2014.
Review of Journal of Medieval Military History Vol. IX. De Re Militari, June 2012.
Review of Carolyn Springer's Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance. De Re Militari, Jnauary 2012.
Review of Christan Teutsch’s Victory at Poiters. De Re Militari, 2010.
Review of Richard Kaeuper’s Holy Warriors. The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2010.
Popular Book Reviews:
“Into the Nerve Center of the Latest Sexual Revolution” (Review of Nerve’s Guide to Sex Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen by Emma Taylor and LoreleiSharkey.) New York Press Vol. 17, No. 9.
“It Looks Better than it Tastes.” New York Press Vol. 17, No. 21. (Review of Hideous Absinthe by Jad Adams.)
“50 Reasons not to Vote for Bush.” New York Press Vol. 17, No. 22. (Review of Robert Sterling (ed.) 50 Reasons Not to Vote for Bush)
“Holy Blood, Holy Grail.” New York Press Vol. 17, No. 28. (Review of Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln's Holy Blood, Holy Grail.)
“15 to Life.” New York Press Vol. 17, No. 47. (Review of Anthony Papa and Jennifer Wynn’s 15 to Life.)
“The Last Knight.”. Renaissance Vol. 9, No 5, 2004. (Review of Norman Cantor’s The Last Knight.)
“Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi.” Renaissance Vol. 9, No 4, 2004.
“Italian Rapier Combat.” Renaissance Vol. 9, No 4, 2004.
“Shifting Frequencies.” Mysteries, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 60.
“Medieval Swordsmanship.” Renaissance. Vol. 8, No. 4, p. 60.
“Medieval Combat.” Renaissance. Vol. 8, No. 4, p. 61.
“The Myth of the Sword Video.” Renaissance. Vol. 8, No. 4, p. 61. (Video review).
“The Knight: A Portrait of Europe’s Warrior Elite.” Renaissance. Vol. 8, No. 4, p. 61.
“Legends of the Star Ancestors.” Mysteries. Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 58.
“Galactic Alignment.” Mysteries. Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 59.
“Beneath the Stone.” Mysteries. Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 59.
“The Green Man in Britain.” Renaissance. Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 82.
“Keepers of the Kingdom.” Renaissance. Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 82.
“The Pen and the Sword: The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe by Sydney Anglo.” The Fight Master: The Journal of the Society of American Fight Directors. Vol. XXV, No. 1 (Spring/Summer, 2002), p. 32.
“Death in Medieval England by D.M. Hadley.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 4., p. 80.
“The Black Plague by William Naphy and Andrew Spicer.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 4., p. 80.
“Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction by Brian R. Price.” Renaissance. Vol. 7, No. 2, p. 76.
“The Pen and the Sword: Medieval Combat by Hans Talhoffer, Translated by Mark Rector.” The Fight Master: The Journal of the Society of American Fight Directors. Vol. XXIV, No. 2 (Fall/Winter, 2001), p. 42.
“The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe by Sydney Anglo.” Renaissance. Vol. 6, No. 2, p. 68.
“The History of Fencing.” Renaissance. Vol. 4, No. 4. p. 77.
Peer-Reviewed Online Academic Writing:
"What 'Knight Fight' Gets Dead Wrong About Medieval Men." The Public Medievalist, 2019.
"Words and Swords: A Samizdat on Medieval Military History and the Decolonization of the Academy." Medievally Speaking, 2018.
" 'A Well-Regulated Militia': The Medieval Origins of the Second Amendment." Medievalists.net, 2018.
"The Medieval Problem with Anglo-American Sherrifs." The Public Medievalist, 2018.
"Not a Good Look: The SCA Swastika Incident." The Public Medievalist, 2018.
"Pyongyang’s Game of Thrones." Fletcher Forum, 2013.
"Strategies of War in Westeros." De Re Militari, 2013.
Works for Hire:
Social Progress and Sustainability: South and Central Asia. Broomall, PA: Mason Crest, 2016.
Field Guide to Finding a New Career: Food and Culinary Arts. New York: Checkmark, 2009.
Field Guide to Finding a New Career: Advertising, Sales, and Marketing. New York: Checkmark, 2009.
Great Careers with a High School Diploma: Construction and Trades. New York: Ferguson, 2008.
Great Careers with a High School Diploma: Communications, the Arts, and Computers. New York: Ferguson, 2008.
Editor or Developmental Editor:
Swordmaster, the journal of the US Fencing Coaches' Association (2009–2010)
Field Guide to Changing Careers (Checkmark, 2008–2009)
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Scribners, 2003)
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual History in America (Scribners, 2003)
Dictionary of the Middle Ages Supplement (Scribners, 2003)
Estafilade, the semi-annual newsletter of the Association for Historical Fencing (AHF). Estafilade archives may be viewed on the AHF’s Web site at The Association for Historical Fencing (www.ahfi.org). (1999–2005)
Translator:
The Spirit of Épée. New York: SKA Swordplay Books, forthcoming.
Jean-Pierre Verney and Jérôme Pecnard,The Great War in 3D. New York: Black Dog Leventhal, 2013.