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Anglo, Sydney.
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Martial arts -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Martial arts -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Renaissance.
Europe -- Social life and customs.
Europe -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.
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The martial arts of Renaissance Europe / Sydney Anglo.
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Anglo, Sydney.
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2000.
Subjects
Martial arts -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Martial arts -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Renaissance.
Europe -- Social life and customs.
Europe -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.
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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/99089407.html
ISBN:
0300083521 (alk. paper)
9780300083521 (alk. paper)
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xii, 384 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents:
I. Violence in the classroom: medieval and renaissance masters of arms -- II. The notation and illustration of movement in combat manuals -- III. Foot combat with swords: myths and realities -- IV. Sword fighting: vocabulary and taxonomy -- V. Staff weapons -- VI. Bare hands, daggers and knives -- VII. Arms and armour -- VIII. Mounted combat (1): jousting with the heavy lance -- IX. Mounted combat (2): cut, thrust and smash -- X. Duels, brawls and battles.
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"In this illustrated book Sydney Anglo provides the first complete study of the martial arts from the early fifteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. He explains the significance of martial arts in Renaissance education and everyday life and offers a full account of the social implications of one-to-one combat training."--Jacket.
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