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| Title: | Academy of the Sword
: The Mystery of the Spanish Circle in Swordsmanship & Esoteric Arts |
| Author: | Gérard Thibault |
| ISBN: | 1891448404 : 9781891448409 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 215x280mm |
| Pages: | 310 |
| Weight: | 1.19 Kg. |
| Published: | Midpoint Trade Books (Chivalry Bookshelf) - November 2006 |
| List Price: | 36.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Fencing |
Secret Geometries of the SwordIn the early years of the 17th century, Girard Thibault - poet, physician, architect, painter, occultist, and master swordsman, a true Renaissance man - astonished the courts of Europe with a new system of swordsmanship based on the principles of sacred geometry and Renaissance occult philosophy. In his youth, Thibault studied the art of the sword with the great Dutch fencing master Lambert van Someren, then traveled to southern Spain to learn destreza, the revolutionary Spanish system of rapier fencing, from Luis Pacheco de Narvaez and other masters of the art. After his return to the Netherlands around 1610, he won fame as one of the best swordsmen of the age, and set out to put everything he knew about the way of the sword into a single comprehensive textbook of rapier fencing that could be used by students who had no access to a teacher of his system. Originally published in 1630, Academy of the Sword is that textbook - the most elaborate manual of swordsmanship ever published.
On the Proportions of the Human Body, Related to the Figure of our Circle and to the Proper Length of the Sword; On the Proportions of the Body; On The Correct Way of Drawing the Sword and Entering into Measure; On the Posture of the Straight Line; On Attacks at the First Instance, and Feints; On Attacks and Counters on the Straight Line; On the Timing of Attacks and Counters; On Imbrocades; On Sentiment; On Sentiment, Continued; On Entering Within the Angles; On Entering Within the Angles, Continued; On An Alternate Guard; On Cuts; On Techniques Outside the Arm; On Pauses; On Cuts, Continued; On Cuts To The Right Arm; On Obliging the Blade; On Controlling the Blade; On Attacks of First Intention; On Diverse Counters; On Another Alternate Guard; On Different Postures; On Subtle Variations; On Subjecting to the Inside; On Parrying; On Unnatural Postures; On Unnatural Postures, Continued; On Maintaining the Advantage; On Obliging the Blade Revisited; On Attacks of First Intention Revisited; On the Postures of Salvatore Fabris; On Facing the Sword and Dagger; On Facing the Sword and Dagger, Continued; On Facing the Sword and Dagger, Further Continued; On Facing the Sword and Dagger, Concluded; On Facing the Sword and Shield; On Facing the Sword and Shield, Continued; On Facing the Two-Handed Sword; On Facing the Two-Handed Sword, Continued; On Facing the Two-Handed Sword, Concluded; On Facing the Left-Handed Swordsman; On Facing the Musketeer; Glossary of Terms.
