Directory of History Resources

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This category holds historial fencing manuals, and histories of the sport of fencing.

Resources in This Category

• Elizabethan Fencing

  http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~wew/fencing.html
  Description of the Art of defence during the Elizabethan Period, the early 16th and 17th Centuries. Links to training materials and online manuals.

• His Practise

  http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hudson/saviolo/
  A 1594 fencing manual by Vincentio Saviolo.

• Paradoxes of Defence

  http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/paradoxes.html
  Written by George Silver and published in 1599.

• Sentiment of the Sword

  http://www.ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_burtonsentimentswordcontents_0300.htm
  Text of the book by Sir Richard Burton.

• Traitè D'Escrime

  http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~wew/fencing/lovino.html
  16th century Italian fencing manual. Includes woodcut images.

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