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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 ...
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.
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 German school of fencing (Deutsche Schule; Kunst des Fechtens[a]) is a system of combat taught in the Holy Roman Empire during the Late Medieval, German Renaissance, and early modern periods. It is described in the contemporary Fechtbücher ("fencing books") written at the time. The geographical center of this tradition was in what is now ...
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 ...
Title page of the 1629 edition, including a portrait of Capo Ferro. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...