Marozzo’s Spada sola – Cap. 95 & 96
This post outlines my current interpretation of the first actions found in Marozzo’s sword alone section, started in the context of an online form tournament.
Review: Analysis of the Vibrational Characteristics of a Training Longsword
This is a review of another article which discusses sword vibrations.
Federico Ghisliero
A complete scan of Federico Ghisliero’s treatise is online!
Tales of the French duels: Blame the Italians
An excerpt of Brantôme’s Discours sur les Duels, tracing the origins of the new duelling habits to Naples.
Tales of the French duels
This post is an introduction for a series of contemporary accounts of late 16th century French duels.
Minimum effort, maximum efficiency
In this article, I discuss the widespread principle ‘minimum effort, maximum efficiency’ and how it should be handled with care…
Lovino est en ligne
Le manuscrit de Lovino est disponible en ligne !
Lovino is online
The Lovino manuscript is now online!
Intent of attacks
This post contains some discussion of a thought-provoking article: What is intent?
Study of various historical rapiers
Guillaume Vauthier has compiled and analyzed a great amount of publicly available data on rapiers, and has kindly allowed me to host it here.
Etude de rapières historiques
Guillaume Vauthier a réalisé une grande compilation et analyse des données publiques disponibles sur de nombreuses rapières, et m’a permis d’héberger cet article ici.