Provides a visual snapshot of the courtly elegance and common wear of the Middle Ages. Filled with hundreds of sketches... Læs mere
This volume examines the study and reconstruction of medieval and early modern fight-books and related subjects. The subjects covered range from manuscript studies to philology, from Aristotelian physics to martial musicality, from medieval textuality to women and warfare.
This book describes a campaign of the Hundred Years War in 1380-1. The campaign itself was a great chevauchée, or... Læs mere
Bringing together some of the most important accounts of medieval jousting, especially those of the jousts at St. Inglevert, this is a direct look at the sources that have influenced our modern ideas and reconstructions of late medieval jousting.
In this volume Steven Muhlberger translates the historical accounts of the Combat of the Thirty and then examines both what contemporaries thought, and how the battle has been remembered through the centuries, giving readers a window into late medieval chivalric culture.
A complete translation of the earliest known version of the Twelve of England, Professor Fallows presents the text in both the medieval Portuguese and an accompanying English... Læs mere
First publication of 1599 manuscript by Portuguese master-at-arms Domingo Luis Godinho entitled Arte de Esgrima (The Art of Fencing).Tim... Læs mere
Translated into English for the first time, this book includes a valuable and extensive technical introduction, with illustrations... Læs mere
In this first, printed edition of Falkner's work, a full translation and analysis, combined with a photographic reproduction of the... Læs mere
Guy Windsor presents a complete guide to Italian dagger combat, as set down in Il Fior di Battaglia, a manuscript written in 1410. Readers are guided through the processes of this... Læs mere
This book takes you to the fencing School of celebrated renaissance rapier Master Nicoletto Giganti of Venice. This faithful... Læs mere
Steven Muhlberger turns his pen to the final section of Charny's work to reveal what it tells us about how medieval 'men-at-arms'... Læs mere