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--- activities:martial:rapier_combat [2022/01/08 06:02] – Dietrich von Sachsen
+++ activities:martial:rapier_combat [2023/03/27 22:12] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-====== Rapier Combat ======
+====== Fencing ======
 //All fencers, bearwards, common players in interludes and minstrels, not belonging to any baron of the realm or towards any other honourable personage of greater degree ... which ... shall wander abroad and have not license of two justices of the peace ... shall be judged rogues, vagabonds and sturdy beggars.//
 [[http://www.cornellcollege.edu/english/Blaugdone/essays/vagrancy.htm| --Vagrancy in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England]]
-Rapier Combat - also called Fencing or the Art of Defence - as practiced in the SCA is the recreation of various styles of combat from both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The focus is on civilian, unarmoured combat with the sword, though other weapons are used. SCA fencing has gone beyond the rapier to include various other types of period weapons, like the sidesword, the longsword and even the spear. Fencers also use secondary weapons and parrying devices in their off-hands including daggers, bucklers, cloaks and sticks.
+Fencing - also called the Art of Defence - as practiced in the SCA is the recreation of various styles of combat from both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The focus is on civilian, unarmoured combat with the sword, though other weapons are used. SCA fencing has gone beyond the rapier to include various other types of period weapons, like the sidesword, the longsword and even the spear. Fencers also use secondary weapons and parrying devices in their off-hands including daggers, bucklers, cloaks and sticks.
 The term fencing has replaced rapier in the official documents of the SCA, including the rules that govern fencing.
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 =====Period Sources=====
-A number of fencers have studied period manuals in an attempt to bring to life the art of defence as practiced in the past. These manuals range in date from the 14th century, such as MS I.33 and the Royal Armouries Fechtbuch and the works of Fiore dei Liberi; through the 15th century works of Masters like Hans Talhoffer and Paulus Kal; and into the 16th and early 17th century writings of Masters Achille Marozzo, Giacomo di Grassi, Joachim Meyer, Camillio Agrippa and Nicoletto Giganti. There are many other manual sources now coming to light.
+A number of fencers have studied period manuals in an attempt to bring to life the art of defence as practiced in the past. These manuals range in date from the 14th century, such as MS I.33 (also known as the Royal Armouries Fechtbuch) and the works of Fiore dei Liberi; through the 15th century works of Masters like Hans Talhoffer and Paulus Kal; and into the 16th and early 17th century writings of Masters Achille Marozzo, Giacomo di Grassi, Joachim Meyer, Camillio Agrippa and Nicoletto Giganti. There are many other manual sources now coming to light.
   * [[https://wiktenauer.com/|Wiktenauer]], an ongoing collaboration among researchers and practitioners from across the Western martial arts (WMA) community.