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The
Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe
by Sydney Anglo |
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this extensively illustrated book, Sydney Anglo, a leading historian of
the Renaissance, provides the first complete study of the martial arts
from the early 15th to the late 17th centuries. Soldiers wielded a
variety of weapons on the battlefield, and it was normal for civilians
to carry swords and know how to use them. In schools across the continent,
professional masters-of-arms taught the skills necessary to survive in a
society were violence was endemic. Anglo draws on a wealth of
evidence - from detailed treatises, descriptions of real combat,
sketches by jobbing artists to magnificent images by Durer and Cranach -
to reconstruct and illustrate the arts taught by these long-dead
masters-of-arms.
$45.00 (hardback) |
