!!!!!LIBRARIES, LIBRARIES, LIBRARIES!!!!!!
!!!!!LIBRARIES, LIBRARIES, LIBRARIES!!!!!!
Cennedi's
Treatise on SCA Fighting
Yusef's
Post and Beam Experience
Here is the great project...where I built a house of beams and timber
and what befell it in the end.
American
Heritage Fighting Arts Association
Sun
Tsu's "The Art of War", Project Gutenburg edition (better!)
Flavius
Vegetius Renatus "Military Matters"
Tao
Te Ching - Written by Lao-Tzu A Translation For the PUBLIC
DOMAIN by j.h.mcdonald 1996
The Art of War by Nicollo Machiavelli
Old
Sword Play by Alfred Hutton
(a Victorian master at arms, Mr. Hutton was one of the great three
Victorian masters who did their best to modernize sword fighting.
This translation and commentary is worth the trouble to study and
see the problems he solved in the process of creating a good fighting
manual.)
Joachim Meyer.
Mark Rector, one of the movers and shakers of Mr. John Clement's Arma
and of HACA is at it again, getting a translation of Meyer's
book. Here is the translation project....HERE
The pictures which go with this translation project are found HERE
I urge people to respect their copyrights.
Meyer was a professional master-at-arms of the Strasburg Marxbrueder
fighting guild and he wrote this very influential book, Kunst der
fechtens ("Art of Fighting") and published it in 1570.
Tobias Stimmer provided the amazing illustrations. He attempted
to cover every aspect of fighting with weapons, including short sword
and dagger, Dusack, staffs, pole weapons and wrestling. A
worthwhile study book for sure.
Joachim Meyer.
This is Higgins' Armoury facimili of this very influential book
Hope you can read German...grin! On the other hand, it also seems
to help to be able to see what the original words were....for instance,
he uses an attack called a stier, and it is named after the upward
thrust of a steer's horns. Well, whaddya know!
This is the book I use most in the South Tower Armouring Guild style. I have found that there is nothin in Meyer which is not in Talhoffer, but there is no doubt that Meyer has prettier pictures.
George Sylver, Gentleman, Paradoxes of Defence
This is the more famous book which Sylver rants on about the bad
Italian Schools, and dangerous fencing masters. Entertaining,
especially if you actually run a fencing school. But Sylver is
often dismissed out of hand by people who don't realize that this is
not a fight book at all. Even at the time, he bore this critisism
with great stoicism, and published a companion volume. A real
fight book appropriately titled "Brief Instructions"
George Sylver, Brief
Instructions on my Paradoxex of Defence
This the one you want to read to discover techniques. I use many of
these techniques in my class. It was unaccountably lost until
long after the age when fighting with swords was the norm...and
re-discovered in 1898. Probably by Sherlock Holmes. This
book should take its place beside any continental work. I am
indebted to Greg Lindahl for publishing Steve Hick's re-typing of this
remarkable manuscript. A facimile of this manuscript may be
found HERE
Blade Patterns Intrisnic to steel edged weapons.
A photo essay on the "Viking
Sword" page. More info here,
regarding typology of Viking Swords.
From
Rapier to Langsax: Sword Structure in the British Isles in the Bronze
and Iron Ages, by Niko Silvester deals with the development of
swords from their origins in the Bronze Age through the close of the
Viking Age and is a component of the now closed Swordsmithy. Russian Medieval Arms and
Armor is an intriguing subject as there is a blend of both
Eastern and Western influences, varying over time, which are well
covered in this English language summary and illustrated glossary from
the Xenophon
Group. Bill's
Military Stories 05
Bill's
Military Stories 06
Bill's
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