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The most comprehensive book ever written on the art of fencing with
the basket-hilted Highland broadsword, including every major
technique and concept from broadsword and backsword masters Donald
McBane (1728), Thomas Page (1746), Andrew Lonnergan (1771), Captain
G. Sinclair (1790), Archibald MacGregor (1791), Henry Angelo
(1799), John Taylor (1804), and Thomas Mathewson (1805). Includes:
Fundamental Skills Plain Playing Timing Slipping the Leg Slipping
the Body Double Attacks The Feint The Invitation Actions on the
Blade Disarms Counter-Disarms Set Play Loose Play The Grounds of
the Sword Traversing Footwork Double Weapons (sword and targe,
sword and buckler, sword and dagger, etc.) The style of the stage
gladiators The style of the Highland Regiments The training
curriculum of the Cateran Society The history of broadsword and
backsword fencing Nearly 500 separate training exercises
Thomas Hobbes argues that the fear of violent death is the most
reliable passion on which to found political society. His role in
shaping the contemporary view of religion and honor in the West is
pivotal, yet his ideas are famously riddled with contradictions. In
this breakthrough study, McClure finds evidence that Hobbes'
apparent inconsistencies are intentional, part of a sophisticated
rhetorical strategy meant to make man more afraid of death than he
naturally is. Hobbes subtly undermined two of the most powerful
manifestations of man's desire for immortality: the religious
belief in an afterlife and the secular desire for eternal fame
through honor. McClure argues that Hobbes purposefully stirred up
controversy, provoking his adversaries into attacking him and
unwittingly spreading his message. This study will appeal to
scholars of Hobbes, political theorists, historians of early modern
political thought and anyone interested in the genesis of modern
Western attitudes toward mortality.
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