====== Source Texts ======

These are the texts which we study. In my opinion they represent something like a coherent body of study which shows the core and breadth of rapier technique in France between approximately 1590-1640.

===== Rapier (Point-centric) Sources =====

==== Frog DNA ====

  * [[lep_agrippa_summary|Camillo Agrippa]] --- Summary and Interpretation

The sources below contain some gaps and there is plenty of room for interpretation. In these cases, since they all (mostly?) credit Camillo Agrippa as a theoretical and methodological ancestor, it is fitting that his 1553 text is used as an outsider reference point where necessary and where possible.

==== Rapier Alone ====

  * [[cavalcabo_start|Gerolamo (Heironyme) Cavalcabo]]
  * [[paternoster_start|Patenostrier of Rome]]
  * Pedro de Heredia
  * Andre des Bordes (Camillo Palladini?)

==== Rapier and Dagger ====

  * Gerolamo (Heironyme) Cavalcabo
  * Paternostrier
  * Pedro de Heredia
  * "Capitaine" Péloquin
  * François Dancie
  * Andre des Bordes (Camillo Palladini?)

===== Sidesword (and Vulgar) Sources =====

I have a theory that both these sources are different expressions of the same underlying system of swordsmanship which ranged across the Mediterranean coast of the Occitan-speaking lands of southern France and eastern Spain. This **is** a hill I will die on.

  * Henry de Sainct Didier
  * Luis Domingo Godinho

As a secondary focus and a counterpoint to the sources above:

  * [[meyer_start|Joachim Meyer]]