Sports, Fencing, Classical, History

History

8 Sites in History

Elizabethan Fencing

Description of the Art of defence during the Elizabethan Period, the early 16th and 17th Centuries. Links to training materials and online manuals.

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~wew/fencing.html
His Practise

A 1594 fencing manual by Vincentio Saviolo.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hudson/saviolo/
His True Art of Defense

A fencing manual by di Grasse, a definitive work in its time.

http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/index.htm
Historic Fencing Manuals

Listing of Historical Fencing Manuals purchasable from Patri J. Pugliese.

http://www.latourdulac.com/fencing/patri.html
On Honor and Honorable Quarrels

A 1594 fencing manual by Vincentio Saviolo. The sequel to His Practise.

http://www.musketeer.org/manuals/saviolo/second.index.html
Paradoxes of Defence, by George Silver (1599)

A treatise on fencing, published in 1599.

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/paradoxes.html
Sentiment of the Sword

Text of the book by Sir Richard Burton.

http://www.ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_burtonsentimentswordcontents_0300.htm
Traitè D'Escrime

16th century Italian fencing manual. Includes woodcut images.

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~wew/fencing/lovino.html

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