Author: Philibert de La TouchePublisher:
ISBN: 9780993421600
Category : Fencing
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
The True Principles of the Single Sword
Author: Philibert de La TouchePublisher:
ISBN: 9780993421600
Category : Fencing
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Of the Single Rapier
Author: Johannes Georgius BruchiusPublisher:
ISBN: 9780992673581
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Confessor
Author: Terry GoodkindPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765315236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Fantasy-roman.
On War
Author: Carl von ClausewitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Secrets of the Sword
Author: baron de BazancourtThe Book of Five Rings
Author: Miyamoto MusashiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781935785972
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra. The five "books" refer to the idea that there are different elements of battle, just as there are different physical elements in life, as described by Buddhism, Shinto, and other Eastern religions. Through the book Musashi defends his thesis: a man who conquers himself is ready to take it on on the world, should need arise.
The Academy of the Sword
Author: Gerard Thibault d'AnversPublisher: Aeon Books
ISBN: 1904658911
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
The most detailed and comprehensive treatise on swordsmanship ever written, Gerard Thibault's Academy of the Sword offers an extraordinary glimpse into a forgotten landscape of ideas, in which Pythagorean sacred geometry illuminated the lethal realities of rapier combat to create one of the Western world's only thoroughly documented esoteric martial arts. Translated by the widely respected occultist and scholar John Michael Greer, this stunningly illustrated and precisely detailed manual of Renaissance swordsmanship is a triumphant document of Renaissance culture-as well as a practical manual of a martial art that can still be studied and practiced today.
The Duel in Early Modern England
Author: Markku PeltonenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139436694
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. The advocates of the duel, following Italian and French examples, contended that it maintained and enhanced politeness; its critics by contrast increasingly severed duelling from civility, and this separation became part of a vigorous attempt in the late seventeenth century and beyond to redefine civility, politeness and indeed the nature and evolution of Englishness. To understand the duel is to understand much more fully some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and Markku Peltonen's study will thus engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.
Wizard's First Rule
Author: Terry GoodkindPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765300270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
An unearthly adversary descends on an idyllic fantasy world, corrupting magic against good and slaughtering innocents, and only a single man can stop him.
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