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--- activities:martial:rapier_combat [2022/01/08 22:02] – [Period Sources] Albrecht Stampfer
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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.