SPADA: An Anthology of Swordsmanship in Memory of Ewart Oakeshott

HURRY--VERY FEW REMAINING NOT TO BE REPRINTED!

Softcover, 182pp, ~100 photographs & illustrations

SPADA, the flagship project of the Swordplay Symposium International (SSI), has set out to produce the most professional and exciting work on historical swordsmanship yet produced. They have succeeded in bringing together key authors from the different approaches to the Western Martial Arts--certainly these articles provide key new insights for anyone pursuing the sword arts, including stage choreographers, reenactors, SCA combatants, historical fencers or Western martial artists. Sword legend Ewart Oakeshott's last article, "Studying Arms within the Circumference of History""Much Ado About Nothing: Or, About the Cutting Edge of Flat Parries" Gregory Mele"Counterattacks with Opposition: Influence of Weapon Form" Stephen Hand"Dom Duarte and His Advice on Horsemanship" Steve Hick"Talhoffer’s Sword and Duelling Shield Techniques as a Model for Reconstructing Early Medieval Sword and Shield Techniques" Stephen Hand and Paul Wagner "Reconstructing Medieval & Renaissance Hungarian Sabre Techniques" Russell Mitchell"Inside, Outside, Right Foot, Left Foot: Assumptions of Handedness in Weapons of the Staff" Paul Wagner"A Brief Look at Grappling and Wrestling in Renaissance Fencing" John Clements"Foundations of Italian Rapier" William E. Wilson"Spanish Influence in the Rapier Play of Vincentio Saviolo" Stephen Hand and Ramon Martinez"Highland Swordsmanship" Paul Wagner

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