Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-quarter Combat by Hans Talhoffer

Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-quarter Combat

Hans Talhoffer with Mark Rector (Translator)

317 pages • first pub 1467 (view editions)

nonfiction history reference informative slow-paced
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"Medieval swordfighting was not the hacking, blade-on-blade, ring of steel affair so often depicted in films and on stage. Combatants in the Middle Ages used footwork, avoidance, and the ability to judge and manipulate timing and distance to explo...

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