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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

The term 'medieval martial arts' conjures images of armoured knights wielding sword, lance, and a...

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

Koryu, literally, 'old flow from the past, ' refers to Japanese martial traditions that predate t...

Few images of chivalry are stronger in the popular mind than that of two armoured knights in a jo...

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