A detailed exploration of armoured combat with sword, dagger, spear and axe. Filled with techniqu...

Dating from the 1520's, Bolognese swordsmaster's Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova is the earliest ...

Joachim Meyer (ca. 1537 - 1571) is without doubt one of the most influential fencing masters of t...

In 1599, during the period when the Portuguese crown was united to the crowns of Castile and Arag...

In the waning years of the fourteenth century, the household of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancas...

Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Volume I

Recorded over six centuries ago, the teachings of the 14th-century Master-at-Arms Johannes Liecht...

There are a number of 'how-to' rapier manuals now available; both those written centuries ago and...

The Late Middle Ages (c.1350-1500) provides us with many of our stock, childhood images of the 'M...

Understanding the past takes more forms than historiography. Since 2005, professional and amateur...

The 14th century - a paradoxical time of world-shattering plague, the Hundred Years War, the Peas...

Perhaps no other weapon represents Renaissance Italian fencing like the rapier. But do we know ho...