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SCA Rapier Combat. Rapier combat is a style of historical fencing practiced in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). The primary focus is to study, replicate and compete with styles of rapier sword-fighting found in Europe during the Renaissance period, using blunted steel swords and a variety of off-hand defensive items.
A rapier (/ ˈreɪpiər /) or espada ropera ('dress sword') is a type of sword originally used in Spain [1] and Italy [citation needed]. The name designates a sword with a straight, slender and sharply pointed two-edged long blade wielded in one hand. [2] It was widely popular in Western Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries as a symbol ...
Salvator Fabris. Salvator Fabris (1544-1618) was an Italian fencing master from Padua. During his life he taught in various European countries, most notably in Denmark where he was the fencing instructor of King Christian IV. [1] It was during his time in Copenhagen that he published his treatise on rapier fencing, Lo Schermo, overo Scienza d ...
The term Italian school of swordsmanship is used to describe the Italian style of fencing and edged-weapon combat from the time of the first extant Italian swordsmanship treatise (1409) to the days of classical fencing (up to 1900). Although the weapons and the reason for their use changed dramatically throughout these five centuries, a few ...
Ridolfo Capo Ferro da Cagli (Ridolfo Capoferro, Rodulphus Capoferrus) was an Italian fencing master in the city of Siena, best known for his rapier fencing treatise published in 1610. He seems to have been born in the town of Cagli in the Duchy of Urbino (nowadays Province of Pesaro e Urbino ), but was active as a fencing master in Siena ...
Nicoletto Giganti was a 17th-century Italian rapier fencing master. The frontispiece of his 1606 work [1] names him as “Nicoletto Giganti, Venetian”, although evidence suggests he or his family, moved to Venice from the town of Fossombrone, in Le Marche, Central Italy. [2] Nicoletto Giganti "Scola, overo, teatro".
Gérard Thibault d'Anvers. Gérard (or Girard) Thibault of Antwerp (ca. 1574–1627) [1] was a fencing master and writer of the 1628 rapier manual Academie de l'Espée. Thibault was from the Southern Netherlands which is today Belgium. His manual is one of the most detailed and elaborate extant sources on rapier combat, painstakingly utilizing ...
Historical European martial arts. The first page of the Codex Wallerstein shows the typical arms of 15th-century individual combat, including the longsword, rondel dagger, messer, sword -and- buckler, voulge, pollaxe, spear, and staff. Historical European martial arts (HEMA) are martial arts of European origin, particularly using arts formerly ...