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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.
- 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
- Joesph Tinguely “Manual of Contre-Pointe” (1856)
- Ministry of War “Fencing Manual” (1877)
- Alexandre Valville (1817)
- Romuald Brunet (1884)
- Louis Rondelle (1892)
Archived Stuff
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