Recorded over six centuries ago, the teachings of the Master-at-Arms Johannes Liechtenauer have b...

Le Jeu de la Hache, written in the mid fifteenth century for the Burgundian Court, is the oldest ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Robert Childs' book seeks to bestow not just mechanical advice, but also to provide a philosophy ...

Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Volume I

Translated into English for the first time, this book includes a valuable and extensive technical...

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...

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

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...