Swords and Swordsmanship
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- "Anonymous Fechtbuch: Manuscript I.33" 13th century German Sword & Buckler Manual
- Images from 15th century Fechtbuch "Gladiatoria"
- Goliath. Anonymous.: Late 1400s-early 1500s. Covers unarmored great-sword combat, and wrestling.
- Fiore Dei Liberi. "Flos Duellatorum in Armis": Italian. 1410
- 15th century English Sword Text. (Additional MS.39564)
- Vadi, Fillipo. Book on the Art of Fighting With Swords: circa. 1482-1487.
- Harleian Manuscript Analysis Project: Interpretation of a 15th century English text on the great-sword.
- Joachim Meyer. Kunst des Fechten: circa 1570
- Frederico Ghisliero. Introduction to his 1587 Rapier Text
- Albrecht Duerer. Fechtbuch.: early 1500s.
- George Hale. The Private Schoole of Defence: 1614.
- Codex Wallerstein: anonymous German text on fighting circa 1470.
- Das Solothurner Fechtbuch: circa 1423. German fechtbuch which covers armored and unarmored combat. Long-sword, dagger, polaxe, and wrestling as well as mounted combat.
- Le Jeu de la Hache: 15thC treatise on the Poleaxe. English translation by Sydney Anglo.
- Sigmund Ringeck's commentary on Liechtenauer‘s Fechtbuch c. 1389 to 1440
- Hans Talhoffer. English Translation by Mark Rector
Hans Talhoffer, 1467.
Talhoffer, Hans. Medieval Combat : A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat. trans. Mark Rector. Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal, 2000.
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A translation into modern English of Talhoffer's Fechtbuch.
Yale University Press, 2000.
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In this extensively illustrated book a Anglo provides a complete study of the martial arts in Europe from the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century. Anglo focuses on the teaching masters and their methods of instruction. Not a "how to" book, but a resource that will lead the reader to further study of the surviving European manuals.
Brown, Terry. English Martial Arts.
Anglo-Saxon Books, 1998.
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Clements, John. Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques.
Paladin Press, 1998.
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Clements, John. Renaissance Swordsmanship : The Illustrated Use of Rapiers and Cut-And-Thrust Swords.
Paladin Press, 1997.
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