Brian R. Price#Writing, editing and publishing

Price has had a varied career. From 1984 to 1990 he manufactured replica armour through a business called Thornbird Arms until he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in Political Science in 1990.{{cite web|title=Thornbird Arms|publisher=Chronique: Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournaments Library. Online|accessdate=April 26, 2011|url=http://www.chronique.com/Library/Armour/Tbird.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708152020/http://www.chronique.com/Library/Armour/Tbird.htm|archive-date=2011-07-08|url-status=dead}}{{cite magazine |title=An Interview With Armorer Brian Price |first=Ken |last=Mondschein |journal=Renaissance Magazine |volume=9 #5 |issue=39 |date=2005}} During his time in the Society for Creative Anachronism he founded two other small businesses: his small press Chivalry Bookshelf (which published new books from 2001 to 2007) and his importer of replica clothing, Revival Enterprises (still active). Although Price says that he "transitioned the (Revival Enterprises) business to a silent partnership in 2011 as interests shifted towards academia and sold it outright in January of 2012, once terms had been agreed",https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbrianrprice/ (retrieved 3 January 2023) the registration for Revival Enterprises' website was renewed with his name and Alabama address as late as April 2021.https://www.whois.com/whois/revival.us (retrieved 3 January 2023)

Price worked in the computer software, information technology and internet industries from 1993 to 2000.{{cite web |title=Brian R. Price LinkedIn Profile|publisher=LinkedIn|accessdate=April 23, 2011|url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-price/26/98/57a |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121225205033/http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-price/26/98/57a |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 25, 2012 }}{{Primary source inline|date=January 2023}} In 2006 Price entered the University of North Texas to pursue a doctorate in history.

In 2011-12 he served in Afghanistan as a senior socio-cultural advisor for the Human Terrain System, working with NATO, American and Afghan forces. His work there focused on the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), their internal dynamics and their relationship to American and NATO forces as related to counterinsurgency theory and practice. He made use of local and oral history techniques and gathered oral histories on ANSF officers and civilians.

After receiving his PhD in May 2011{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}, Price began in 2012 as a Visiting Professor at Hawai'i Pacific University, teaching primarily within the graduate program for [https://www.hpu.edu/cla/history-intstudies/diplomacy.html Diplomacy & Military Studies]. Although his dissertation was on medieval history, his research came to focus on contemporary military affairs. As noted above, by November 2022 Price was an Associate Professor in the Department of Joint Warfighting at the Air Command and Staff College in Alabama and was no longer listed with Hawai'i Pacific University.

Until 2011, Price was best known for his involvement in the Society for Creative Anachronism, historical reenactment, and Western Martial Arts.

Beginning about 1981,{{Cite web |url=http://www.unitedstatesmartialartshalloffame.com/2004_inductees.html |title=US Martial Arts Hall of Fame Inductees, 2004 |access-date=2011-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114095717/http://www.unitedstatesmartialartshalloffame.com/2004_inductees.html |archive-date=2010-11-14 |url-status=dead }} 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.[http://wiki.caid-commons.org/index.php/Brion_Thornbird_ap_Rhys "Brion Thornbird ap Rhys"] in [http://wiki.caid-commons.org Compendium Caidis]{{cite web|title=Brion Thornbird ap Rhys|publisher=History of the Kingdom of the West|accessdate=May 2, 2011|url=http://history.westkingdom.org/MiscPeople/B/BrionThornbird.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929154706/http://history.westkingdom.org/MiscPeople/B/BrionThornbird.htm|archive-date=September 29, 2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Brion Thornbird ap Rhys and Alysandra the Whyte Moor, Crowned June 4, AS XXIII, 1988 CE|publisher=History of the Kingdom of CAID|accessdate=May 2, 2011|url=http://history.sca-caid.org/Brion-Alysandra.html}} 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.[http://www.chronique.com/Library/Armour/Tbird.htm Thornbird Arms] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708152020/http://www.chronique.com/Library/Armour/Tbird.htm |date=2011-07-08 }} at [http://www.chronique.com Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournaments Library] 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{{Cite web |url=http://laurel.ansteorra.org/ALWLaurels.htm#b |title=Ansteorran Laurels |access-date=2011-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323130040/http://laurel.ansteorra.org/ALWLaurels.htm#b |archive-date=2012-03-23 |url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite web|title=Who's Who in The History of the Kingdom of the West|publisher=History of the Kingdom of the West|accessdate=May 2, 2011|url=http://history.westkingdom.org/Who/Who-B.htm#211|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929154712/http://history.westkingdom.org/Who/Who-B.htm#211|archive-date=September 29, 2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=West Kingdom College of Heralds: Awards and Honors|publisher=West Kingdom College of Heralds|accessdate=May 2, 2011|url=http://heralds.westkingdom.org/Awards/WestReign_100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721130410/http://heralds.westkingdom.org/Awards/WestReign_100.htm|archive-date=July 21, 2011|url-status=dead}} Price is also a warranted Armored Combat Authorizing Marshal "At Large" of the Kingdom of Ansteorra.{{cite web|title=Kingdom of Ansteorra Marshallate – Warranted|publisher=Kingdom of Ansteorra Marshallate|accessdate=May 2, 2011|url=http://marshal.ansteorra.org/armored/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820171341/http://marshal.ansteorra.org/armored/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=27|archive-date=August 20, 2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Kingdom of Ansteorra Armored Combat Authoriszing Marshals|publisher=Kingdom of Ansteorra Marshallate|accessdate=May 2, 2011|url=http://marshal.ansteorra.org/ACauth.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630213531/http://marshal.ansteorra.org/ACauth.php|archive-date=June 30, 2011|url-status=dead}}

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.chronique.com/george.htm |title=The Company of Saint George |access-date=2011-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514140502/http://www.chronique.com/george.htm |archive-date=2011-05-14 |url-status=dead }} In 2000, a part of the Company of Saint George developed into the Schola Saint George school of Western Martial Arts,{{Cite web|url=http://www.westerncircle.org/members/michael.html|title = Western Circle of Swordfighters: Member Profiles Sir Michael}} co-founded by Price and Robert Holland in Union City, California.[http://www.scholasaintgeorge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69:branch-sf-bay-area&catid=13:branches-a-study-groups&Itemid=128 SSG SF Bay Area Branch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718163605/http://www.scholasaintgeorge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69:branch-sf-bay-area&catid=13:branches-a-study-groups&Itemid=128 |date=2011-07-18 }} at [http://www.scholasaintgeorge.org Schola Saint George website] Price directed the Schola Saint George, expanding it to Texas and other regions of the United States and abroad, until his resignation as president in 2011. Currently the SSG has branches in Dallas, Atlanta, Charleston, Boston, Little Rock, Moscow, Latvia, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in Honolulu.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

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.[http://www.thearma.org/spotlight/StGeorge.htm Schola St. George Medieval Swordsmanship Symposium 2001] at [http://www.thearma.org The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts] webpage. Accessed April 5, 2011.

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.scholasaintgeorge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18:our-instructors&Itemid=58 |title=SSG – Our Instructors |access-date=2011-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718163628/http://www.scholasaintgeorge.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18:our-instructors&Itemid=58 |archive-date=2011-07-18 |url-status=dead }}

Price's writings from this period included The Book of the Tournament,{{cite book |title=The Book of the Tournament. 1st. Chicago Spectrum Press, 1991. Print|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=April 23, 2011 |isbn=978-1-886094-23-9|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/95226831|year=1991}} Historical Forms of the Tournament for SCA Combat: History, Resources, Examples,{{cite book |title=Sir Brion Thornbird. Historical Forms of the Tournament for SCA Combat: History, Resources, Examples. "Prepared for the Collegium Occidentalis, Kingdom of the West, Spring 1992". Mountain View, Calif.: B.R. Price, 1992. Print|year=1992|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=April 23, 2011|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/98133738 }} and Arming Yourself in the Style of the 14th Century,{{cite book |title=Arming Yourself in the Style of the 14th Century. Mountain View, Calif.: B. R. Price, 1996. Print|publisher=WorldCat|oclc=51181971}} were written principally for the Society for Creative Anachronism (sometimes under his SCA pseudonym "Sir Brion Thornbird"{{cite book |title=Thornbird, Sir Brion. Historical Forms of the Tournament for SCA Combat: History, Resources, Examples. "Prepared for the Collegium Occidentalis, Kingdom of the West, Spring 1992". Mountain View, Calif.: B.R. Price, 1992. Print|year=1992|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=April 23, 2011|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/98133738}}{{cite web |title=The Book of the Tournament/Brian R. Price a.k.a. Brion Thornbird|publisher=U.S. Copyright Office|accessdate=April 23, 2011|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=51&ti=51,51&Search_Arg=Price%2C%20Brian&Search_Code=NALL&CNT=25&PID=k0pwQH0LdJMnWH3xjuNdiA_Ia&SEQ=20110419025606&SID=1}}) and were sometimes published by the SCA as well.{{cite book |title=The Best of Chronique, the Journal of Chivalry (Compleat Anachronist, no. 73). Milpitas, CA: Society for Creative Anachronism, 1994. Print|publisher=WorldCat|oclc=695111165}}

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.{{r|LinkedIn}}{{cite web |title=Knighthood, by "AElflaed of Duckford"|publisher=Sandra Dodd|accessdate=April 23, 2011|url=http://sandradodd.com/Knighthood}}

Price republished and expanded his 1991 monograph, The Book of the Tournament, as a book under his The Chivalry Bookshelf imprint in 1996 and, again, in 2002.{{cite book |title=The Book of the Tournament. Union City, Calif.: The Chivalry Bookshelf, 2002. Print|publisher=WorldCat|isbn=978-1-891448-00-3|oclc=52890357|year=2002}}

In 1999, as a monograph, and, in 2001, as a book, Price published his "translation into modern English" of Ramon Lull's Book of Knighthood & Chivalry, which became widely used as a textbook.{{cite book |title=Ramon Lull's Book of Knighthood & Chivalry with the Ordene de Chevalerie. Ramon Llull; Brian R Price, tr. Union City, Calif.: The Chivalry Bookshelf, 2001. Print|publisher=WorldCat|isbn=978-1-891448-03-4|oclc=84254419|date=July 2001}} The book was republished again in 2002 as a paperback by The Chivalry Bookshelf and Boydell & Brewer{{cite book |title=Ramon Lull's Book of Knighthood & Chivalry with the Ordene de Chevalerie. Ramon Llull; Brian R Price, tr. Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2002. Print|publisher=WorldCat|isbn=978-1-891448-03-4|oclc=640537120|date=July 2001}} and again in 2004 by The Chivalry Bookshelf and Greenhill Press.{{cite book |title=Ramon Lull's Book of Knighthood & Chivalry with the Ordene de Chevalerie. Ramon Llull; Brian R Price, tr. London: Greenhill Press, 2004. Print|year=2004|publisher=Library of Congress|isbn=9781891448423|oclc=53709327 |accessdate=April 25, 2011|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/2003271016}}

Price's Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction, was published by Paladin Press in 2000.{{cite book |title=Foreword by David Edge; contributions by Alan Williams. Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction: the 14th Century. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 2000. Print|publisher=WorldCat|isbn=978-1-58160-098-8|oclc=46972120|year=2000}} This book remains the most popular introduction to the field and has provided a springboard from which a generation of armourers working in the medieval style have emerged.

In 2001, Chivalry Bookshelf reprinted Bengt Thordeman's 1939–1940 two-volume Armour from the Battle of Wisby, 1361 as a single volume,{{cite book |title=Armour from the Battle of Wisby, 1361. Union City, Calif.: The Chivalry Bookshelf, 2002. Print|publisher=WorldCat|isbn=978-1-891448-05-8|oclc=491611117|year=2001}}{{cite web |title=Armour from the Battle of Wisby, 1361. Stockholm: Almqvist och Wiksell: ill, 1939–1940. 2 vol. Print|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=April 23, 2011|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/a40003625}} and Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship: Sigmund Ringeck's Commentaries on Johannes Liechtenauer's Verse, translated and interpreted by Christian Henry Tobler.{{cite book |title=Tobler, Christian Henry. Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship: Sigmund Ringeck's Commentaries on Johannes Liechtenauer's Verse. Union City, Calif.: The Chivalry Bookshelf, 2001. Print|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=April 23, 2011 |isbn=978-1-891448-07-2|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/2003278006|year=2001}} From 2001 to 2006, Chivalry Bookshelf published about 20 books by prominent members of the early historical fencing movement including William E. Wilson, Tom Leoni, Stephen Hand, and Guy Windsor until a dispute with the authors about royalties (see Controversies below). As of 2023, the most recent Chivalry Bookshelf publication was Price's 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.{{cite book |title=Fiore dei Liberi's Sword in two hands: a full-color training guide for Medieval longsword based on Fiore dei Liberi's Fior de Battaglia. Highland Village, TX: The Chivalry Bookshelf, 2007. Print|publisher=WorldCat|isbn=978-1-891448-13-3|oclc=188047309|date=2007-08-14}} 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 2002 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.{{cite book |title=Sklar, Elizabeth S. and Donald L. Hoffman. King Arthur in Popular Culture. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. Print|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=April 23, 2011 |isbn=978-0-7864-1257-0|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/2002000872|date=2002-03-20}}

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.{{cite web |title='"Isn't Chivalry Dead?". Knight Templar Magazine, July, 2010, pp. 34–35. Online|work=Issuu |publisher=Knight Templar Magazine|accessdate=April 25, 2011|url=http://issuu.com/gektusa/docs/0710/34}}

In May, 2011, his dissertation, The Martial Arts of Medieval Europe, was accepted by the University of North Texas Department of History. After this date his writing changed focus.

From 2012 onward, Price has mainly written for professional military and academic audiences.

Price's peer-reviewed articles include "A Proposed Methodology for the Validation of Historical European Martial Arts" (Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies, 2015), "The Resonance of History: The influence of Soviet-era mujahidin networks in eastern Afghanistan" (Army Press Online Journal, 2016), "Human Terrain at the Crossroads" (Joint Force Quarterly, 2017) and "Yron & Stele: Chivalric Ethos, Martial Pedagogy, Equipment, and Combat Technique in the Early Fourteenth-Century Middle English Version of Guy of Warwick" (Journal of Medieval Military History, 2018){{cite book | chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442436.008 | doi=10.1017/9781787442436.008 | chapter=Yron & Stele: Chivalric Ethos, Martial Pedagogy, Equipment, and Combat Technique in the Early Fourteenth-Century Middle English Version of Guy of Warwick | title=Journal of Medieval Military History | year=2018 | last1=Price | first1=Brian R. | pages=159–188 | isbn=9781787442436 | s2cid=216891291 }} He contributed ten articles to the Sage Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives (Sage, 2016), that included "Afghan War," "Counterinsurgency," "Guerrilla War," "Human Terrain System," "Minerva Program," Project Camelot," "Honor," "Wars of Medieval Europe," "Military Culture," and "Multilateral Warfare." At the 2015 International Conference for the Study of Martial Arts, he offered a paper, "Aristotle and the Martial Arts of Medieval Europe: The idea of l'arte, pedagogy, and historical context in the medieval fechtbuchen{{sic}}."

Publications for a general audience on the middle ages from his second period include two articles for Medieval Warfare Magazine, titled "The Poleaxe and the Changing Face of Warfare" (2015) and "A Fifteenth Century Manual of War: Conrad Kyeser's Bellefortis" (2016). A variety of informal publications are available on his ResearchGate and academia.edu pages.{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian-Price|title=Brian PRICE | Professor (Associate) | Ph.D. History - University of North Texas; BA International Relations, UCLA | Air University, Maxwell | Dept of Joint Warfighting | Research profile}}{{cite web | url=https://air-af.academia.edu/DrBrianRPrice | title=Brian R Price | Air University - Academia.edu }}

According to his page on Academia.edu, he continues to work on a medium-term research project, Socio-Cultural Knowledge in Full-Spectrum Operations: From Project Camelot to the Human Terrain System, that examines the defense sector's challenges with respect to understanding local cultures in areas where the U.S. military might deploy on foreign soil.

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.{{cite web|title=Yuri Cowan Research Staff Profile|publisher=Universiteit Gent|accessdate=May 3, 2011|url=http://www.english.ugent.be/yuricowan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012035729/http://www.english.ugent.be/yuricowan|archive-date=October 12, 2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Yuri Cowan Research on Authorship as Performance Profile|publisher=Universiteit Gent|accessdate=May 3, 2011|url=http://www.rap.ugent.be/index.php?id=14&type=content|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913173137/http://www.rap.ugent.be/index.php?id=14&type=content|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 13, 2012}}{{cite web |title=William Morris Society|publisher=William Morris Society|accessdate=May 3, 2011|url=http://www.morrissociety.org/}}{{cite web |title="The Ordination of Knighthood", translated by William Morris, Ed. by Yuri Cowan, Morris Online Edition, 2009. Online|publisher=University of Iowa Libraries|accessdate=May 3, 2011|url=http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/ordination.html}}{{cite book |title="The Ordination of Knighthood", translated by William Morris, Ed. by Yuri Cowan, Morris Online Edition, 2009. Record ID 1171769|year=2009|publisher=Ghent University Academic Bibliography & Institutional Repository|hdl=1854/LU-1171769|last1=Cowan|first1=Yuri}}

In the Headnote: Introduction, Cowan accused Price of plagiarizing William Morris's translation of the Ordene de chevalerie in Price's 2001 The Chivalry Bookshelf edition:{{cite web |title="Headnote / Introduction": "The Ordination of Knighthood", translated by William Morris, Ed. by Yuri Cowan, Morris Online Edition, 2009. Online|publisher=University of Iowa Libraries|accessdate=May 3, 2011|url=http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/ordinationintro.html}}

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!

Whereas 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, and 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 of the hardcover dustjacket includes a paragraph crediting Morris as the translator of the Ordene de Chevalerie.

No mention is made of Morris's work on the Lull text, however, and the paperback edition does not mention Morris at all.Ramon Lull’s Book of Knighthood and Chivalry and the anonymous Ordene de Chevalerie, Brian R. Price (Ed.). The Chivalry Bookshelf, s.l., 2001. {{ISBN|1-891448-03-X}}. Further, the two were included together in this enthusiast's volume because they are discussed together in the first chapter of Maurice Keen's foundational work, Chivalry (Yale University Press, 1984), a work that provided the underpinning for many of Price's early works.

In early 2011 public allegations were made by seven authors: Dr. Jeffrey Forgeng, Guy Windsor, Dr. Steven Muhlberger, Christian Tobler, Luca Porzio, Gregory Mele and Tom Leoni (Tobler and Mele went on to create a new press, Freelance Academy Press{{cite web |url=http://www.freelanceacademypress.com/ |title=Home |website=freelanceacademypress.com}}) that: royalty payments had been withheld since 2006, editorial fees had not been paid, verbal agreements had not been honoured, Tobler had not been paid his portion of foreign language rights-sales on one of his title, and that a Chivalry Bookshelf affiliated editor and co-author had been over-paid in the production of the Filippo Vadi treatise discussed above. The dispute was settled out of court, with Chivalry Bookshelf releasing all remaining product and copyright to the individual authors.{{Cite web|url=http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=1920700#p1920700|title = "The Sword in Two Hands by Brian Price" review wan - the Armour Archive}}{{Cite web|url=http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=157458|title = Creator-Owned Titles: Chivalry Bookshelf - Author Settlement - the Armour Archive}}

At the same time, Chris Gilman, a California artisan, accused Price of shutting down Thornbird Arms while holding over $21,000 of deposits for product which he never delivered.http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=129990&p=1928661 Gilman's personal website is https://diligentdwarves.blogspot.com/ Dr. Douglas W. Strong, an American armour scholar, also stated that Price had accepted deposits of at least $1,500 and then failed to deliver the product or refund the money despite being repeatedly reminded of the debt over the following 20 years. This dispute was never brought to court, and in March 2011 Strong said that he had received goods in compensation for the debt.http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=129990&start=700 "Today, Brian's compensation for the armour owed to me but never delivered arrived. I have several cases of books. ... Brian's debt to me for this armour is settled."

In March 2011, Will McLean, an illustrator,"Gygax,Gary; illustrations by David C. Sutherland III, D.A. Trampier, Darlene Pekul, Will McLean, David S. LaForce, and Erol Otus. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeon Masters Guide: Special Reference Work. Lake Geneva, WI: Random House, 1979". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 3, 2011. {{ISBN|0-935696-02-4}}. author"Forgeng, Jeffrey L. and Will McLean. Daily life in Chaucer's England, 2d ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 3, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-313-35951-4}} and independent medieval scholar,"McLean, Will. "Outrance and Plaisance." Journal of Medieval Military History, Vol. VIII. Ed., Clifford J. Rogers, Kelly DeVries and John France. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2010". De Re Militari. Retrieved May 3, 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-84383-596-7}} 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 (1994).[http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=129990&start=280 Post to The Sword in Two Hands by Brian Price review wanted thread in the Armour Archive Forum]. Will McLean, a/k/a "Galleron, March 2, 2011, p. 9. Online". Armour Archive Forum. Retrieved May 3, 2011.Elizabeth Bennet, King René's Tournament Book: A Modern English Translation https://www.princeton.edu/~ezb/rene/renehome.html McLean also accused Price of reprinting illustrations from a book by late British scholar Claude Blair, "one of the foremost authorities on historic European metalwork, especially arms and armour,"Sally Badham, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/12/claude-blair-obituary "Claude Blair Obituary."] The Guardian, Friday 12 March 2010 without permission in the same volume of Chronique.

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."Forfeiture pursuant to Section 171.309 of the Texas Tax Code of SCHOLA SAINT GEORGE, Ltd., INC. File Number 800653339 7 August 2009 http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=37011 A copy of the Certificate of Forfeiture was publicly posted on February 22, 2011 during the online exchange between Price and the authors."The Sword in Two Hands by Brian Price" review wan http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=129990&p=1925103&hilit=charter#p1925103 On February 25, 2011, the new president of Schola Saint George announced that Price had tendered his resignation as president for "personal reasons."Colin Hatcher, "Announcement by Colin Gabriel Hatcher, newly elected President of the Schola Saint George," 25 February 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20120225164400/https://www.scholasaintgeorge.org/index.php?Itemid=90&option=com_content&id=227%3Aannouncement-by-colin-gabriel-hatcher-newly-elected-president-of-the-schola-saint-george&catid=60%3Amartial-arts-news&view=article He remains affiliated with the school.

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