Resources
Links:
Howardian Sword Club
A list of books, films, suppliers and websites of interest to fencers
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Fiction with a fencing interest
[These have been culled from several sources. Detailed descriptions of several can be found at http://members.aol.com/BookKritik/fencing.html]
Amberger, J. Christoph: The Secret History of the Sword 1999
Anglo, Sydney: The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe 2000
Billacois, Francois: The Duel: Its Rise and Fall in Early Modern France 1990
Burton, Richard Francis: The Book of the Sword 1989
Clements, John: Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques 1998
Clements, John: Renaissance Swordsmanship: The Illustrated Use of Rapiers and Cut-And-Thrust Swords 1997
d' Grassi, Giacomo: Three Elizabethan Fencing Manuals
de Bazancourt, Baron César: Secrets of the Sword 1998
de Silva, Henry: Fencing: The Skills of the Game 1991
Evangelista, Nick: The Art And Science Of Fencing 1996
Evangelista, Nick: The Encyclopedia of the Sword 1995
Evangelista, Nick: The Inner Game of Fencing: Excellence in Form, Technique, Strategy, and Spirit 2000
Garret, Maxwell R., Emmanuil G. Kaidanov, & Gil A.Pezza: Foil, Saber, and Epee Fencing: Skills, Safety, Operations, and Responsibilities 1994
Gaugler, William M: A Dictionary of Universally Used Fencing Terminology 1997
Gaugler, William M: The History of Fencing: Foundations of Modern European Swordplay 1998
Gaugler, William M: The Science of Fencing: A Comprehensive Training Manual for Master and Student; Including Lesson Plans for Foil, Sabre and Épée Instruction 1997
Girard, Dale Anthony: Actors On Guard: A Practical Guide for the Use of Rapier and Dagger for Stage and Screen 1997
Nadi, Aldo: The Living Sword: A Fencer's Autobiography 1995
Nadi, Aldo: On Fencing 1943
Oakeshott, Ewart & R. Ewart Oakeshott: Knight and His Horse 1998
Oakeshott, Ewart: Records of the Medieval Sword 1998
Oakeshott, R. Ewart: The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry 1996
Oakeshott, R. Ewart: Knight and His Weapons
Oakeshott, R. Ewart & Ewart Oakeshott: Knight in Battle
Simonian, Charles: Basic Foil Fencing, 4th Edition 1995
Skipp, Allan: Fencing 1997
Stratten, Max M. & Simpson, Warren K: Fencing 1985
Talhoffer, Hans: Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close- Quarter Combat 2000
Turner, Craig & Tony Soper: Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay 1990
Vass, Imre: Epee Fencing: A Complete System 1999
Werner, Doug. Fencer's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Traditional & Sport Fencing
Westbrook, Peter with Tej Hazarika: Harnessing Anger: The Way of an American Fencer 1997
Fiction with a fencing interest
Arturo Pérez-Reverte: The Fencing Master
Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
Edmond Rostand: Cyrano De Bergerac
Miquel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Die Another Day - an entertaining mix of conventional and filmic fencing!
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - swordplay on the wing!
Highlander
The Princess Bride
The Duellists
Le Bossu
The Three Musketeers
Return of the Musketeers
The Mask of Zorro
The Black Swan
Captain Blood
The Mark of Zorro
The Sea Hawk
Treasure Island
UK:
Outside UK:
Favero Electronic Design - Italy
Prieur - France
Imperial College Kit Buying Guide - http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/acc/fencing/resources/kit_buying_guide.php
Federation Internationale d'escrime - http://www.fie.ch
Rules of Fencing - http://www.travelbritain.com/cgi-bin/search/hyperseek.cgi?ID=992275629
Andrew's Fencing Page - http://www.andrewmarshall.co.uk
British Fencing Calendar - http://www.britishfencing.com/calendar.htm
European Fencing Federation - http://www.eurofencing.com/index_eng.html
The Duellist - http://www.theduellist.co.uk/Homepage.htm
What is fencing? - http://ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au/~fencing/what.html
A variety of articles - http://www.classicalfencing.com/articles.shtml
Advance Lunge - http://library.thinkquest.org/15340/
General information - http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111136/
Bath Sword Club - http://www.bathswordclub.co.uk (Contains a helpful manual)
Miscellaneous links to explore - http://www.start4all.com/?A=page&subject=fencing
Fencing: Introduction in collaboration with NBC - http://www.pacificnet.net/~varon/fencing.htm
Open Directory - http://dmoz.org/Sports/Fencing/
British Academy of Fencing - http://www.baf-fencing.org/
Very basic introduction - http://www.menshealth.co.uk/sport/atoz/fencing.html
Fencing in Hellas and the UK - http://www.geocities.com/anthrakas/fencing/indexuk.htm
(Contains
interesting material, including a score-sheet generator)
A thumbnail history - http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,688654,00.html
A comprehensive but fossilised site - http://www.ludd.luth.se/~rog/fencing/links.html
Resources list - http://www.pcsfencing.com/nevadadivision/faq3.html
Yahoo has various links at http://pages.yahoo.com/nhp/recreation___sports/sports/fencing, including the following among (at time of writing) 58 sites:
An unusual site still under development
Equi