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The Martial Arts Of Renaissance Europe
by
Sydney Anglo
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Hardcover, 396 pages
Published
August 11th 2000
by Yale University Press
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Jake
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One of the few benefits to being stuck in an airport is that it lets you catch up on your reading. (I’m still working on what a second benefit would be…)
In any case, thanks to a recent trip experience with the airline industries fantastic scheduling skills, I was finally able to put a couple of books to rest. I will start with this one, because it’s been the longest in coming.
Like a lot of young boys, I went through a phase of thinking that the medieval European knight wa...more
In any case, thanks to a recent trip experience with the airline industries fantastic scheduling skills, I was finally able to put a couple of books to rest. I will start with this one, because it’s been the longest in coming.
Like a lot of young boys, I went through a phase of thinking that the medieval European knight wa...more
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As I mentioned to my new supervisor, Polonius, I'm only on page 102 of the 290 pages in this massive tome. The author, Sydney Anglo, certainly knows his subject matter. This is not a light read! Anglo expects that his readers come with a great deal of prior knowledge on the subject. I really wish that Anglo used more subtitles. Despite organizing his book into chapters (Chapter One is on fencing masters and how people learned to fight with swords and such, Chapter Two is about illustrated manual...more
An amibtious book that covers a dauntingly broad scope of material, this work manages to be both entertaining and well-researched. Although there are few glaring missteps (such as the statement that medeival pollaxes were basically "knightly toys" incapable of real damage), but overall, this is a wonderful book. Anglo's easy British humor makes it a joy to read, while his credentials as a historian make it educational as well. This is a great book for beginning students of Western M...more
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