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English Swordsmanship: The True Fight of George Silver
List Price: $49.95 • This book is in our bibliography • This book is on 13 myArmoury member lists • This book has 3 myArmoury member reviews
Edition: Hardcover 18 third-party copies available from: $78.07 (As of May 22, 09:11 PM) 
Other items of interest: • Medieval Art of Sword & Shield: The Combat System of Royal Armouries MS I.33 • Academy of the Sword • Sigmund Ringeck's Knightly Art of the Longsword • Highland Broadsword: Five Manuals of Scottish Regimental Swordsmanship • Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise  Product Description: George Silver was oneof the most significant writers on the history of Western swordsmanship. Best known for his distrust of Italian rapier fencing, this suspicion led him to document the system of swordsmanship practiced by the English gentry and nobility before the advent of the rapier. Looking back to earlier times, Silver described a system that in many fundmentals was still medieval, but he did so with an early Modern precision. Fearful that his countrymen were forgetting the basics of swordsmanship, Silver described the system in great detail. What emerges is a simple and powerful, yet deep and subtle style, heavily based on natural body movements and designed to work under the stress of real combat. In this book, Stephen Hand presents Silver's system with outstanding text and in more than four hundred clear photographs. This book is a must for anyone interested in swordsmanship, it stands to become a classic! Product Details/Specifications: Authors: Stephen Hand Recording label: Chivalry Bookshelf Publishers: Chivalry Bookshelf Manufacturer: Chivalry Bookshelf EAN: 9781891448270 Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 1891448277 Number of items: 1 Number of pages: 264 Publication date: 2006-05-25 Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Published) Data cached: May 22, 2013 09:11 PM (GMT -8 hours) |
