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Our affiliate relationship with Amazon.com allows us to earn referral credit on each purchase made from this bookstore. Should you find a title that you wish to purchase, simply add it to your shopping cart. When ready to checkout, return to your cart and complete your transaction. All orders are securely handled, processed, and fulfilled by Amazon.com.  Shown below is a randomly-selected title from our reading list: Medieval Sword & Shield: The Combat System of Royal Armouries MS I.33 by Paul Wagner, Stephen Hand  Medieval Sword & Shield is a fascinating interpretation of the earliest known fighting treatise in Europe, Royal Armouries RA I.33, also published by Chivalry Bookshelf as The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship (ISBN 1891448382). In Medieval Sword & Shield, Stephen Hand and Paul Wagner decrypt the sword and buckler techniques presented in the color treatise, explaining the concepts that underly the system and providing photographic examples to explain their interpretation to the ...
Our Price: $29.35 List Price: $29.95 Edition: Paperback  Show DetailsOther items of interest: • Fighting with the German Longsword • The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile & Translation of Europe's Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Ro Yal Armouries MS I.33 (Royal Armouries Monograph) • Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques • The Swordman's Companion: A Manual for Training With the Medieval Longsword • Sigmund Ringeck's Knightly Arts of Combat: Sword and Buckler Fighting, Wrestling, and Fighting in Armor This item is on 47 member reading lists: Keith Bragg :: Unrated —Updated Jun 14, 2009 JE Sarge :: Unrated —Updated Jun 6, 2009 Craig L. :: Unrated —Updated Jun 2, 2009 B. Stark :: Unrated * RECOMMENDED * Wagner and Hand have done a great treatise on the fundamentals of I.33 with this book. Very useful. —Updated May 15, 2009 Sam Gordon Campbell :: Unrated —Updated Feb 11, 2009 Noah G. :: Unrated —Updated Jan 3, 2009 Jeff Kaisla ::    * RECOMMENDED *—Updated Dec 8, 2008 Bryan Johnson :: Unrated —Updated Oct 23, 2008 Rex Metcalf :: * RECOMMENDED *The first book on swordsmanship I ever bought....Like Terry Browns 'English Matirals Arts' I highly reccomend this book to beginners. The foundational lessons in footwork and movement are indispensable. This is a book I find myself returning to time ... • Read full review —Updated Feb 17, 2008 Thomas Parsons :: Unrated —Updated Jan 10, 2008 Bob Burns :: Unrated —Updated Dec 9, 2007 M. Eversberg II :: Unrated * RECOMMENDED * —Updated Nov 24, 2007 Brad Harada :: Unrated —Updated Nov 16, 2007 Thom R. :: Unrated —Updated Jul 29, 2007 Eric Meulemans :: Unrated —Updated Jun 1, 2007 Konstantin Tsvetkov :: * RECOMMENDED *—Updated May 19, 2007 Medvedev A.V. :: Unrated —Updated Apr 28, 2007 Hugh Knight :: Unrated Not Recommended —Updated Apr 19, 2007 Colin F. :: Unrated —Updated Jan 25, 2007 Max von Bargen :: Unrated —Updated Jan 2, 2007 Hugo Voisine :: * RECOMMENDED *—Updated Dec 28, 2006 Brandon B :: Unrated —Updated Dec 10, 2006 John Oliver :: Unrated I've just bought this - haven't had a chance to study it yet —Updated Oct 11, 2006 Tom Umland :: Unrated —Updated Oct 4, 2006 Robert Zamoida :: * RECOMMENDED *—Updated Aug 21, 2006 Jason Daub :: —Updated Aug 3, 2006 Alexi Goranov :: Unrated * RECOMMENDED * —Updated Jul 22, 2006 Shae Bishop :: * RECOMMENDED *—Updated Jul 7, 2006 Craig Peters :: Not RecommendedA lackluster intepretation of the swordsmanship of MS I.33. Hand and Wagner's book is well organized and easy to read, but it is not a very good reference for those who wish to learn sword and buckler techniques. Probably the biggest problem that plagues the book is that it entirely ... • Read full review —Updated Jun 14, 2006 :: 0 of 2 members found this review helpful Ira P :: Unrated —Updated Apr 15, 2006 Cory Winslow :: Unrated —Updated Apr 11, 2006 Alexander Hinman :: Unrated —Updated Mar 23, 2006 Nathan Robinson :: Unrated —Updated Mar 18, 2006 Greyson Brown :: Unrated —Updated Mar 2, 2006 Dániel Sasvári :: Unrated —Updated Feb 2, 2006 Jason Elrod :: Unrated —Updated Dec 18, 2005 Bill Grandy :: * RECOMMENDED *Wagner and Hand have created a very easy to follow guide that shows the sword and buckler style presented in the manual known as MS I.33. They discuss principles of footwork, handwork and fencing theory applied to this art form, and give step by step photo instructions on the ... • Read full review —Updated Dec 13, 2005 :: 3 of 3 members found this review helpful Mike Capanelli :: Unrated —Updated Nov 4, 2005 Stephen Hand :: This is my book, so I'm biased. I have subsequently written a paper with some reinterpretation in Spada II and I recommend that anyone wanting to study this system get hold of that as well as the original book.
I must disagree with the reviewer who said that we relied ... • Read full review —Updated Oct 23, 2005 :: 2 of 5 members found this review helpful Risto Rautiainen :: Would have gotten a tenner, but as it is already outdated, what can you do? Buy SPADA II ! —Updated Oct 22, 2005 :: 1 of 1 members found this review helpful Alberto Dainese :: Unrated —Updated Sep 20, 2005 Blaz Berlec :: Unrated —Updated Sep 3, 2005 Shawn Mulock :: Unrated —Updated Aug 24, 2005 Pamela Muir :: Unrated —Updated Aug 11, 2005 Patrick Kelly :: An excellent book and we should have more of them like this. The medieval sword and shield is an aspect of sworsmanship that has been neglected of late in favor of the extremely popular longsword. Given the sword and shield combinations long history on the battlefield, and field of ... • Read full review —Updated Jul 31, 2005 :: 3 of 3 members found this review helpful Aaron Schnatterly :: —Updated Jul 22, 2005 Chad Arnow :: Unrated —Updated Jul 21, 2005 |
