Masters
of Medieval and Renaissance Martial Arts
- Rediscovering the Western Combat
Heritage
by John Clements, et al
Paladin
Press, 2008
 In
this new anthology more than a dozen respected names in Medieval
and Renaissance scholarship have come together to present a variety of
fighting lore from the rich heritage of the European fight masters, circa
1350 to 1675.
The list of legendary fighters and instructors contained within these
pages reads like a combat honor roll and includes Johannes Liechtenauer,
Fiore dei Liberi, Giacomo di Grassi, Henry de Sainct Didier, Joseph Swetnam
and Hugues Wittenwiller. Historical documents translated and analyzed
include Das Solothurner Fechtbuch, Le Jeu de la Hache, and the Gladiatoria.
Because study of this martial literature requires one to be both scholar
and fighter, the translators and interpreters featured in this book are
all researchers and/or martial artists - thus serious students of the
emerging field of historical fencing studies. These contributions from
Dr. Sydney Anglo, Dr. Grzegorz Zabinski, John Clements, David Lindholm,
Brian Hunt, Jeffery Hull, and other modern scholars bring to life the
words and fighting techniques of the masters of long ago.
This rediscovery of combat skills that have been proven over the centuries
will breathe new life into the study of Medieval and Renaissance martial
arts and preserve this knowledge for generations to come.
Contents:
Editor's Foreword
by Jeffrey Hull
The Literary Tradition of Renaissance Martial Arts
by John Clements
The Teachings of Liechtenauer
by John Clements
Unarmoured Longsword Combat of Master Liechtenauer via Priest Döbringer
by Grzegorz Zabinski
Fiore Dei Liberi: 15th Century Master of Defence
by John Clements
Le Jeu de la Hache: A 15th Century Treatise on the Technique of Chivalric
Axe Combat
by Sydney Anglo
Judicial Armoured Dagger Combat of Gladiatoria and KK 5013
by Bartlomiej Walczak
A Brief Introduction to the Boon of the English Flourysh
by Benjamin "Casper" Bradak and Brandon Heslop
The Fight-Book of Hugues Wittenwiller
by Jeffrey Hull
The Longsword Fight-Lore of Mertin Siber
by Jeffrey Hull
Mertein Hündsfelder: Fight-Lesson with the "Shortened Sword"
by Szabolcs Waldmann
Das Solothurner Fechtbuch: Giving It Voice
by David Lindholm
Paulus Hector Mair: Peasant Staff and Flail
by Brian Hunt
The Teachings of Giacomo Di Grassi, Master of Arms, 1570
by John Clements
The Single Sword of Henry De Sainct Didier
by Robert Preston Hyatt and Devin Wilson
Fundamentals of English Staff Fighting of Swetnam and Silver
by Stacy Clifford
Nicolaes Petter's Clear Instructions to the Excellent Art of Wrestling
by Gene P. Tausk
Fencing or Fighting? George Silver, Cyril Matthey and the Infantry
Sword Exercise of 1895 - Rediscovering an Elizabethan Swordsman in Late
Victorian England
by Sydney Anglo
Toward a New Perspective
by John Clements
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