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====== LongEdge Fencing ======

<WRAP 30% right round caution>Check out the [[lep_agrippa_summary|summary of Camillo Agrippa]]'s single sword!</WRAP>

[[https://www.longedgefencing.com|LongEdge Fencing]] concentrates on two area of period French swordsmanship. Use these pages the jumping off point for our interpretation of each. Each page also contains materials used in training sessions.

  * [[earlymodern_start|Early Modern Rapier]], and
  * [[c19sabre_start|Nineteeth Century Sabre]].

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===== Authors and Sources =====
==== Early Modern Rapier ====

  * [[cavalcabo_start|Gerolamo (Heironyme) Cavalcabo]]
  * [[paternoster_start|Patenostrier of Rome]]
  * [[heredia_start|Pedro de Heredia]] (who copies large sections of both and extends on them)
  * [[lep_agrippa_summary|Camillo Agrippa]]
  * Camillo Palladini -- largely a repetition and commentary on Agrippa
  * [[lep_besnard_summary|Charles Besnard]] -- a text describing the use of something like a proto-smallsword.
  * [[dancie_start|François Dancie]]


==== Nineteenth Century Sabre ====

For //pointe// and //countre-pointe// on foot in the salle:

  * [[armymanual_start|Ministry of War]] "Fencing Manual" (1877)
  * [[brunet_start|Romuald Brunet]] (1884)
  * [[rondelle_start|Louis Rondelle]] (1892)
  * [[tinguely_start|Joesph Tinguely]] "Manual of Contre-Pointe" (1856)
  * Alexandre Valville (1817)

For more military instruction on horseback:

  * Ivanowsky (1834) "//Nouveau système d'escrime pour la cavalerie//"
  * //Citoyen// Bertrand (1801) [[https://www.longedgepress.com/pdfs/escrime-militaire-bertrand-translation.pdf|"Fencing Applied to the Military Art"]]


===== Archived Stuff =====

[[LEF_OldFrontPage|This stuff]] used to be on the front page. It's no longer relevant.