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English swordsmanship
Also known as
Noble Science of Defence · English masters of defence
Description
The native English art of defence taught by the London Masters of Defence and their successors: sword and buckler, sword and dagger, two-handed sword, quarterstaff, bill and later the backsword, with the rapier added after the Italian masters arrived in the 1570s–1590s. George Silver defended it against the rapier in 1599; the backsword and quarterstaff were still taught by eighteenth-century prizefighters such as James Figg.
Related styles
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Variant ofEuropean fencing
Tags
fencing · english-swordsmanship · historical-european-martial-arts
Sources
“Even George Silver (ca. 1560s–ca. 1620s), whose works provide the only detailed study of Elizabethan martial arts, was quick to point out that he was a gentleman, not a professional fencing master.”
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Plain text
Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). English swordsmanship. In Martialis:
Martial Arts Lineage Database.
https://martial.is/entity/01M5JTMYPEMGBV9VR1FNNPYP8R - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed
ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
BibTeX
@incollection{martialis_01M5JTMYPEMGBV9VR1FNNPYP8R, author = {Muñoz, Frederico},
title = {English swordsmanship}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage
Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url =
{https://martial.is/entity/01M5JTMYPEMGBV9VR1FNNPYP8R}, urldate =
{ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
https://martial.is/entity/01M5JTMYPEMGBV9VR1FNNPYP8R
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