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Highland Swordsmanship - Techniques of the Scottish Swordmasters

By: Chivalry Bookshelf

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Medieval Books

Last Stocked on 8/19/2022

Product Info

Title
Highland Swordsmanship - Techniques of the Scottish Swordmasters
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Mark Rector
Publish Year
2001
Pages
196
Dimensions
8.5x11x.5"
NKG Part #
2147843991
Type
Softcover

Description

The Scottish Highlander has been romanticized in poetry, song and legend; immortalized in the figures of Bonnie Prince Charlie and Rob Roy. His reputation as a fierce fighter and deadly swordsman was much more than a myth - a proud tradition of Scottish fencing masters taught the use of the backsword, smallsword, target and dirk from the 17th through the 19th centuries. These masters were as colorful and diverse as the Scottish people themselves, from the upper-class Anglicized, Sir William Hope, to the bawdy, soldier-turned-fencing master Donald McBane, who ran a fencing salon out of his wife's brothel. In this omnibus edition, Mark Rector presents two classic manuals of Scottish swordsmanship from the days of Culloden.