Author: Matthew Bennett
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312348205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Near East in an age before the widespread use of gunpowder.
Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World
Author: Matthew Bennett
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312348205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Near East in an age before the widespread use of gunpowder.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312348205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Near East in an age before the widespread use of gunpowder.
Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World
Author: Christer Jorgensen
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312348199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World describes the combat techniques of soldiers in Europe and North America from 1500 to 1763. The book explores the unique tactics required to win battles in an era where the musket increasingly came to dominate the battlefield, and demonstrates how little has changed in some respects of the art of war.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312348199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World describes the combat techniques of soldiers in Europe and North America from 1500 to 1763. The book explores the unique tactics required to win battles in an era where the musket increasingly came to dominate the battlefield, and demonstrates how little has changed in some respects of the art of war.
Weapons and Fighting Techniques of the Medieval Warrior
Author: Martin J Dougherty
Publisher: Amber Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Weapons.
Publisher: Amber Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Weapons.
Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004324720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe. The first part of the book deals with methodological and specific issues for the studies of this emerging interdisciplinary field of research. The second section offers an overview of the corpus based on geographical areas. The final part offers some relevant case studies. This is the first book proposing a comprehensive state of research and an overview of Historical European Martial Arts Studies. One of its major strengths lies in its association of interdisciplinary scholars with practitioners of martial arts. Contributors are Sydney Anglo, Matthias Johannes Bauer, Eric Burkart, Marco Cavina, Franck Cinato, John Clements, Timothy Dawson, Olivier Dupuis, Bert Gevaert, Dierk Hagedorn, Daniel Jaquet, Rachel E. Kellet, Jens Peter Kleinau, Ken Mondschein, Reinier van Noort, B. Ann Tlusty, Manuel Valle Ortiz, Karin Verelst, and Paul Wagner.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004324720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe. The first part of the book deals with methodological and specific issues for the studies of this emerging interdisciplinary field of research. The second section offers an overview of the corpus based on geographical areas. The final part offers some relevant case studies. This is the first book proposing a comprehensive state of research and an overview of Historical European Martial Arts Studies. One of its major strengths lies in its association of interdisciplinary scholars with practitioners of martial arts. Contributors are Sydney Anglo, Matthias Johannes Bauer, Eric Burkart, Marco Cavina, Franck Cinato, John Clements, Timothy Dawson, Olivier Dupuis, Bert Gevaert, Dierk Hagedorn, Daniel Jaquet, Rachel E. Kellet, Jens Peter Kleinau, Ken Mondschein, Reinier van Noort, B. Ann Tlusty, Manuel Valle Ortiz, Karin Verelst, and Paul Wagner.
Medieval Combat
Author: Hans Talhoffer
Publisher: Greenhill Books
ISBN: 9781853677069
Category : Fencing
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This brilliant and attractive book makes one of the most influential and lavishly drawn fencing manuals of the Middle Ages available in English for the first time. The authentic fifteenth-century techniques of master of arms Hans Talhoffer are illustrated in detail, presenting not only a unique historic record but also a visual guide for modern practitioners. This unparalleled guide to medieval combat, illustrated with 268 contemporary images, provides a glimpse of real people fighting with skill, sophistication and ruthlessness.
Publisher: Greenhill Books
ISBN: 9781853677069
Category : Fencing
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This brilliant and attractive book makes one of the most influential and lavishly drawn fencing manuals of the Middle Ages available in English for the first time. The authentic fifteenth-century techniques of master of arms Hans Talhoffer are illustrated in detail, presenting not only a unique historic record but also a visual guide for modern practitioners. This unparalleled guide to medieval combat, illustrated with 268 contemporary images, provides a glimpse of real people fighting with skill, sophistication and ruthlessness.
Battles of the Medieval World 1000-1500
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904687641
Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Provides an information packed, highly illustrated guide to 20 battles of the medieval period, including Hastings, Hattin, Leignitz, Lake Peipus, Bannockburn, Crecy, Agincourt, Constantinople, and many more. Includes full-color tactical maps for each battle, showing the reader the dispositions and movements of the opposing armies at a glance.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904687641
Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Provides an information packed, highly illustrated guide to 20 battles of the medieval period, including Hastings, Hattin, Leignitz, Lake Peipus, Bannockburn, Crecy, Agincourt, Constantinople, and many more. Includes full-color tactical maps for each battle, showing the reader the dispositions and movements of the opposing armies at a glance.
The Knightly Art of Battle
Author: Ken Mondschein
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060767
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This is an extravagantly illustrated and engrossing exploration of the art of medieval fighting. The book features some of the most interesting selections from a manuscript by the renowned Italian fencing master Fiore dei Liberi depicting the knightly arts of fighting with swords, daggers, and polearms, both on foot and on horseback.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060767
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This is an extravagantly illustrated and engrossing exploration of the art of medieval fighting. The book features some of the most interesting selections from a manuscript by the renowned Italian fencing master Fiore dei Liberi depicting the knightly arts of fighting with swords, daggers, and polearms, both on foot and on horseback.
The Academy of the Sword
Author: Donald J. LaRocca
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998943
Category : Fencing
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
"The Academy of the Sword centers on an assemblage of rare illustrated books devoted to the subject of fencing and dueling, drawn (with one exception) from the library of the Arms and Armor Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... Accompanying the books and giving vivid impact to their illustrations are a selection of swords, rapiers, parrying daggers, bucklers, and other accoutrements, which follow the chronology of, and changes in, fighting styles depicted in the books"--Introduction, page 3
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998943
Category : Fencing
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
"The Academy of the Sword centers on an assemblage of rare illustrated books devoted to the subject of fencing and dueling, drawn (with one exception) from the library of the Arms and Armor Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... Accompanying the books and giving vivid impact to their illustrations are a selection of swords, rapiers, parrying daggers, bucklers, and other accoutrements, which follow the chronology of, and changes in, fighting styles depicted in the books"--Introduction, page 3
Medieval Military Combat
Author: Tom Lewis
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 9781612008875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This books shows for the first time the battle techniques of the medieval period and reexamines the sources for battle numbers.
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 9781612008875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This books shows for the first time the battle techniques of the medieval period and reexamines the sources for battle numbers.
Medieval Swordsmanship
Author: John Clements
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
From the author of Renaissance Swordsmanship comes the most comprehensive and historically accurate view ever of the lost fighting arts of Medieval knights, warriors and men-at-arms. Based on years of extensive training and research in the use of European swords, it contains highly effective fighting techniques for the sword, sword & shield, long-sword, great-sword, pole-arm and more. And with more than 200 illustrations and rare historical documents, it is a scholarly reference as well as a hands-on training guide for martial artists of all levels.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
From the author of Renaissance Swordsmanship comes the most comprehensive and historically accurate view ever of the lost fighting arts of Medieval knights, warriors and men-at-arms. Based on years of extensive training and research in the use of European swords, it contains highly effective fighting techniques for the sword, sword & shield, long-sword, great-sword, pole-arm and more. And with more than 200 illustrations and rare historical documents, it is a scholarly reference as well as a hands-on training guide for martial artists of all levels.