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