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

The Late Middle Ages (c.1350-1500) provides us with many of our stock, childhood images of the 'M...

Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Volume I

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

Deeds of arms - formal, limited combats - were an important part of late medieval warrior culture...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

'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...

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

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

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...