Manuals
Fencing Manuals
Fencing Manuals
Below are links to electronic fencing manuals. Some of them are historic and some have been created more recently.
Historic Manuals
- The Tower of London Manuscript (I.33) - An English translation of one of the first manuals that contains techniques usable by rapier students.
- Giacomo De Grasse (1570) - Another online version The on-line version provided by Iain McClennan, Calontir (Ian Johnson) using scanned and OCR'd input materials.
- Giacomo Di Grasse (1570) - Another version of His True Arte of Defence.
- Vencento Saviolo (1594): Booke One: His Practice and
- Booke Two: Of Honor and Honorable Quarrels (only partially included).
- George Silver (1599) :Pardoxes of Defense and Brief Instructions Upon my Paradoxes of Defence.
- Caranza - A work in progress.
- ARMA - Association for Renaissance Martial Arts - a large collection of online manuals spanning Viking warfare techniques to 18th Century Broadsword.
- Gio. Antonio Lovino (c. 1580):Traite D'Escrime - transcription by William E. Wilson, 1997.
- Camillo Agrippa (1568)- Illustrations from Agrippa's manual.
- The Teachings of Marozzo - a transcription by William E. Wilson of the writings of Giovanni Rapisardi of Italy. Antonio Manciolino (1531)
- The Book of the Courtier
- Joseph Swetnam: The Noble Science of Defence
Modern Training Manuals
- Scola Metallorum Rapier Training Manual - Kingdom of the Outlands training manual for war units.
- An Introduction to Melee Combat - By Lord Blaise Von Bremen