Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay

Name: Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay
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ISBN: 9780809315628

ISBN-10: 0809315629

ISBN-13: 9780809315628

Edition: 1990

Authors: Craig Turner, Tony Soper, Joseph Papp

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Featuring period drawings and prints of swordplay, this book examines and compares the only three existing Elizabethan fencing manuals written in English before 1600: Giacomo Di Grassi’sHis True Arte of Defense(1594), Vincentio Saviolo’sHis Practice in Two Bookes(1595), and George Silver’sParadoxes of Defence and Bref Instructions Upon my Paradoxes of Defence(1599). More than a technical manual on swordplay, this book explores the influence of a new form of violence introduced into Elizabethan culture by the invention of the rapier. The authors examine the rapier’s influence on the various social classes, the clash between the traditional English fencing masters and those embracing the…

Book details

List price: $19.50
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 6/11/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.110
Language: English

Tony Soper is best known as a naturalist who has presented many programmes for the BBC Natural History Unit.