Mounted encounters by armored knights locked in desperate
hand-to-hand combat, stabbing and wrestling in tavern brawls,
deceits and brutalities in street affrays, balletic homicide on the
dueling field -- these were the martial arts of Renaissance Europe.
In this extensively illustrated book Sydney Anglo, a leading
historian of the Renaissance and its symbolism, provides the first
complete study of the martial arts from the late fifteenth to the
late seventeenth century. 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.
Like the martial arts of Eastern societies, ritualized combat in
the West was linked to contemporary social and scientific concerns,
Anglo shows. During the Renaissance, physical exercise was regarded
as central to the education of knights and gentlemen. Soldiers
wielded a variety of weapons on the battlefield, and it was normal
for civilians to carry swords and know how to use them. In schools
across the continent, professional masters-of-arms taught the
skills necessary to survive in a society where violence was endemic
and life cheap. Anglo draws on a wealth of evidence -- from
detailed treatises and sketches by jobbing artists to magnificent
images by Durer and Cranach and descriptions of real combat,
weapons and armor -to reconstruct and illustrate the arts taught by
these ancient masters-at-arms.
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