Author: Thibault d’Anvers, Gerard
Price: $76.00
Category:Health, Fitness & Dieting
Publication Date:2017-02-20T00:00:01Z
Pages:512
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:1904658849
ISBN:13:9781904658849
In the early years of the seventeenth century, Gerard Thibault–poet, physician, architect, painter, occultist, and master swordsman–astonished the courts of Europe with a new system of swordsmanship based on the principles of sacred geometry and Renaissance occult philosophy. [Thibault] set out to put everything he knew about the way of the sword into a single comprehensive textbook of rapier fencing that could be used by students who had no access to a teacher of his system. Originally published in 1630, The Academy of the Sword is that textbook–the most elaborate manual of swordsmanship ever published in any language, packed with hundreds of clearly described and illustrated techniques.–
