Author: Kenner, Andrew

Price: $21.54

Category:Books
Publication Date:2016-05-21T00:00:01Z
Pages:214
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:1326642049
ISBN:13:9781326642044
"Dating from about the early 14th century, the Walpurgis Manuscript (Royal Armouries I.33) is the world's oldest known personal fencing manual. This fascinating document offers a unique window into an early style of sword and buckler fencing that appears to have been both a popular sport and a means of waging war in Western Europe for more than a century. This extensively revised and extended Second Edition will take you through a series of explanations and more than 90 exercises designed to have you fencing in a way that the authors of the I33 manuscript would have immediately recognized. Together with some important interpretation updates, the Second Edition features over 100 illustrative photographs. Rediscover this ancient and effective medieval combat style for yourself, a style which has fascinated our ancestors and is still intriguing fencers today."--back cover.