LongEdge Fencing
Check out the summary of Camillo Agrippa's single sword!
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.
- Early Modern Rapier, and
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Authors and Sources
Early Modern Rapier
- Pedro de Heredia (who copies large sections of both and extends on them)
- Camillo Palladini – largely a repetition and commentary on Agrippa
- Charles Besnard – a text describing the use of something like a proto-smallsword.
Nineteenth Century Sabre
For pointe and countre-pointe on foot in the salle:
- Ministry of War “Fencing Manual” (1877)
- Romuald Brunet (1884)
- Louis Rondelle (1892)
- 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) "Fencing Applied to the Military Art"
Archived Stuff
This stuff used to be on the front page. It's no longer relevant.