My hope is that this list will be of help to people who want to learn historical sword fighting techniques for competition, sparring, fencing, and practice in the SCA, ARMA, LARP's and other medieval, renaissance, fantasy, and historically-based weapons fighting organizations and scenarios. I also hope that stage combat fighters, directors, and choreographers will find usefuleness in the techniques described in these books and videos.
I also have a page dedicated to stage combat books and videos. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for more links to more useful things for sword fighters.
This list is exclusively about Western martial arts weapons technique. A separate page about Eastern martial arts weapons technique is forthcoming.
The list on this page is strictly about historical sword fighting and combat techniques. There is another page about historical warfare.
This list is alphabetical by author:
The Secret History of the Sword: Adventures in Ancient Martial Arts by J. Christoph Amberger |
The School of Fencing by Domenico Angelo |
The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile & Translation of Europe's Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Royal Armouries MS I.33 (Royal Armouries Monograph) by Jeffrey L. Forgeng |
The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe by Sydney Anglo |
The English Master of Arms from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century
by JD Aylward |
The Duel: A History of Duelling by Robert Baldick |
English Martial Arts by Terry Brown |
The Book of the Sword by Richard F. Burton |
Italian Rapier Combat by Ridolfo Capo Ferro, Jared Kirby (Translator), Ramon Martinez (Translator), Jeannette Acosta-Martinez |
Schools and Masters of Fencing : From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century by Egerton Castle |
Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques by John Clements |
Renaissance Swordsmanship : The Illustrated Book Of Rapiers And Cut And Thrust Swords And Their Use by John Clements |
Italian Medieval Swordsmanship: Fiore de Liberi's Flos Duellatorum, Volume 1--fascimile & translation by Fiore De Liberi, Bob Charron |
Highland Swordsmanship: Techniques of the Scottish Sword Masters by Sir William Hope, et al |
THE MODERN SWORDSMAN - Realistic Training for Serious Self-Defense by Fred Hutchinson |
Old Sword Play: Techniques of the Great Masters by Alfred Hutton |
The Swordsman: A Manual of Fence for the Foil, Sabre and Bayonet by Alfred Hutton |
The Sword Through the Centuries by Alfred Hutton, intro by Paul Hilts |
Three Elizabethan Fencing Manuals Ragione Di Adoprar Sicuramente L'Arme ... Giacomo Di Grassi; Vincentio Practice, Saviolo; George Paradoxes of Defense, George Silver edited by James L. Jackson |
Shimmering Sword: Samurai, Western, and Star Wars Sword Fighting by Nick Jamilla |
Sigmund Ringeck's Knightly Art of the Longsword by David Lindholm, Peter Svard |
Spada: An Anthology of Swordsmanship in Memory of Ewart Oakeshott by Ewart Oakeshott, et al |
Sword Fighting Basics by Michael Shire, Rob Valentine |
Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat by Hans Talhoffer, Mark Rector, John Clements |
Fighting with the German Longsword by Christian Henry Tobler |
Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship: Sigmund Ringeck's Commentaries on Liechtenauer by Christian Henry Tobler, et al |
Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay by Craig Turner, Tony Soper |
Arte Gladitoria Dimicandi: 15th Century Swordsmanship of Master Fillipo Vadi by Fillipo Vadi, Luca Porzio |
Medieval Sword & Shield: The Combat System of Royal Armouries MS I.33 by Paul Wagner, Stephen Hand, Julian Kelsey |
Highland Broadsword: Five Manuals of Scottish Regimental Swordsmanship by Paul Wagner, Mark Rector |
Arte of Defence: An Introduction to the Use of the Rapier by William Wilson |
The Swordman's Companion: A Manual for Training With the Medieval Longsword by Guy Windsor |
Codex Wallerstein : A Medieval Fighting Book from the Fifteenth Century on the Longsword, Falchion, Dagger, and Wrestling by Grzegorz Zabinski, Bartlomiej Walczak |
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