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

Joachim Meyer (ca. 1537 - 1571) was one of the most influential fencing masters of the Renaissanc...

Murder, Rape and Treason: Judicial Combats in the Late Middle Ages contains accounts of some of t...

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

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

Provides a visual snapshot of the courtly elegance and common wear of the Middle Ages. Filled wit...

Armizare ('the Art of Arms') was the name the warriors of medieval Italy gave to their martial ar...

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

If you are a long-time martial artist, you have likely been either the recipient, the victim - or...

Guy Windsor presents a complete guide to Italian dagger combat, as set down in Il Fior di Battagl...

In the Middle Ages, wrestling was practiced as both pastime and self-defense by every level of so...

This new, expanded edition brings readers inside the dojos of the ancient schools of Japanese mar...

Aimed at the volunteer regiments of the Napoleonic Era, when engagements with swords were still a...

Noted medieval combat authorities Dierk Hagedorn and Christian Henry Tobler join forces to presen...

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

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

Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Volume I

The Chronicle of the Bourbon Duke Louis II is translated here into English for the first time. A ...

As a window into the knight and his craft, In Saint George's Name: An Anthology of Medieval Germa...

'The complete martial works of Fiore dei Liberi, a master at arms at the turn of the fifteenth ce...

Ellis Amdur's writing on martial arts has been groundbreaking. In Dueling with O-sensei, he chall...

Surviving Examples of Early Plate Armour (1300-1430) will be a series of four volumes, a lavishly...

The poleaxe is a fearsome weapon: the armour-breaching weapon par excellence of the late Middle A...

Scholar-swordsman Paulus Hector Mair (1517-1579) commissioned a study of medieval European combat...

The Saxon nobleman Heinrich von Gunterrodt was a swordsman, soldier and fencing historian. His tr...