Books and Videos about Historical Swordfighting and Weapons Combat

My hope is that this list will be of help to people who want to learn historical sword fighting techniques for competition, sparring, fencing, and practice in the SCA, ARMA, LARP's and other medieval, renaissance, fantasy, and historically-based weapons fighting organizations and scenarios. I also hope that stage combat fighters, directors, and choreographers will find usefuleness in the techniques described in these books and videos.

I also have a page dedicated to stage combat books and videos. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for more links to more useful things for sword fighters.

This list is exclusively about Western martial arts weapons technique. A separate page about Eastern martial arts weapons technique is forthcoming.

The list on this page is strictly about historical sword fighting and combat techniques. There is another page about historical warfare.

This list is alphabetical by author:

The Secret History of the Sword: Adventures in Ancient Martial Arts by J. Christoph Amberger	The School of Fencing by Domenico Angelo	The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile & Translation of Europe's Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Royal Armouries MS I.33 (Royal Armouries Monograph) by Jeffrey L. Forgeng	The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe by Sydney Anglo	The English Master of Arms from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century by JD Aylward	The Duel: A History of Duelling by Robert Baldick
English Martial Arts by Terry Brown	The Book of the Sword by Richard F. Burton	Italian Rapier Combat by Ridolfo Capo Ferro, Jared Kirby (Translator), Ramon Martinez (Translator), Jeannette Acosta-Martinez	Schools and Masters of Fencing : From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century by Egerton Castle	Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques by John Clements	Renaissance Swordsmanship : The Illustrated Book Of Rapiers And Cut And Thrust Swords And Their Use by John Clements
Italian Medieval Swordsmanship: Fiore de Liberi's Flos Duellatorum, Volume 1--fascimile & translation by Fiore De Liberi, Bob Charron	Highland Swordsmanship: Techniques of the Scottish Sword Masters by Sir William Hope, et al	THE MODERN SWORDSMAN - Realistic Training for Serious Self-Defense by Fred Hutchinson	Old Sword Play: Techniques of the Great Masters by Alfred Hutton	The Swordsman: A Manual of Fence for the Foil, Sabre and Bayonet by Alfred Hutton	The Sword Through the Centuries by Alfred Hutton, intro by Paul Hilts
Three Elizabethan Fencing Manuals Ragione Di Adoprar Sicuramente L'Arme ... Giacomo Di Grassi; Vincentio Practice, Saviolo; George Paradoxes of Defense, George Silver edited by James L. Jackson	Shimmering Sword: Samurai, Western, and Star Wars Sword Fighting by Nick Jamilla	Sigmund Ringeck's Knightly Art of the Longsword by David Lindholm, Peter Svard	Spada: An Anthology of Swordsmanship in Memory of Ewart Oakeshott by Ewart Oakeshott, et al	Sword Fighting Basics by Michael Shire, Rob Valentine	Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat by Hans Talhoffer, Mark Rector, John Clements
Fighting with the German Longsword by Christian Henry Tobler	Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship: Sigmund Ringeck's Commentaries on Liechtenauer by Christian Henry Tobler, et al	Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay by Craig Turner, Tony Soper	Arte Gladitoria Dimicandi: 15th Century Swordsmanship of Master Fillipo Vadi by Fillipo Vadi, Luca Porzio	Medieval Sword & Shield: The Combat System of Royal Armouries MS I.33 by Paul Wagner, Stephen Hand, Julian Kelsey	Highland Broadsword: Five Manuals of Scottish Regimental Swordsmanship by Paul Wagner, Mark Rector
Arte of Defence: An Introduction to the Use of the Rapier by William Wilson	The Swordman's Companion: A Manual for Training With the Medieval Longsword by Guy Windsor	Codex Wallerstein : A Medieval Fighting Book from the Fifteenth Century on the Longsword, Falchion, Dagger, and Wrestling by Grzegorz Zabinski, Bartlomiej Walczak

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