The Sword of Combat or The Use of Fighting With Weapons Rob Runacres Thibault Ghesquiere 9781291919691 Books
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In the 17th century Italy was the place to learn the art of the sword. Travellers visited training salles and across Europe Italian works on fencing were translated and Italian schools sprang up. France was no exception. Francois Dancie's 1623 treatise L'Espee de Combat (The Sword of Combat) is therefore an anomaly. Dancie's views are blunt and acidic. He says that many who teach fencing are a 'bunch of libertines'. He has no truck with the geometry that had crept into fencing since Agrippa's work of 1553 and had contempt for that author's use of illustration. Dancie's style follows an Italian form, but rather than following other authors by providing an explanation of tempo and measure, Dancie prefers to concentrate on what temperament is required in a confrontation. His is a direct, fighter's treatise, dedicated to a military man of similar temperament, his methods and descriptions speak more of the street than the salle.
The Sword of Combat or The Use of Fighting With Weapons Rob Runacres Thibault Ghesquiere 9781291919691 Books
As a researcher and practitioner of Renaissance martial arts, I frequently lament the mass of translations being accompanied by the translator's need for self validation by including what are, more often than not, distracting and dissatisfactory 'interpretations' of the original content. I have long hoped to see more volumes being produced which offer simply a straightforward translation while leaving the interpretive process to the reader/researcher. On that count, this volume surely delivers!Being little more than just a straightforward translation of the original source, I found this volume to be a real delight! The translators offer a brief introduction which provides appropriate historical information, a brief description on how the translation came about, the obligatory acknowledgements and expressions of gratitude, and then unabashedly straight into the translation itself! Footnotes are included where appropriate and yet the book is not overly annotated. Further commendable is that while the translators dispensed with the usual interjections of their own ideas and interpretations, they saw fit to include an index which provides the researcher with an all too often neglected, but valuable resource.
As to the content of the book itself... without offering the tedious 'interpretations' I chastise above (this is a book review and not a fencing lesson), I will simply state that for anyone with an interest in seventeenth century fencing, this tome would make a worthy addition to any fencing library. The original author's approach to fencing is as straightforward and direct as was the translator's approach towards it. Some readers might lament the lack of any illustration, but both the author (who declares his disdain for illustration in the text!) and the translators, succeed in having produced a volume in which the clear and descriptive language should convey the material satisfactorily to anyone familiar with the fencing literature of the period.
I thoroughly enjoyed this volume and the freedom to study the author's original words (albeit now in my native language) without the distractions of the translators' interjections. I hope to see more volumes being approached in such a fashion in the future, and I highly commend and applaud the translators for having done so in this one.
-John Farthing, Deputy Director (ARMA)
Association for Renaissance Martial Arts
July, 2014
(Review Originally Published at: http://www.thearma.org/bookreviews.htm#.VBXji8Mo6po )
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The Sword of Combat or The Use of Fighting With Weapons Rob Runacres Thibault Ghesquiere 9781291919691 Books Reviews
As a researcher and practitioner of Renaissance martial arts, I frequently lament the mass of translations being accompanied by the translator's need for self validation by including what are, more often than not, distracting and dissatisfactory 'interpretations' of the original content. I have long hoped to see more volumes being produced which offer simply a straightforward translation while leaving the interpretive process to the reader/researcher. On that count, this volume surely delivers!
Being little more than just a straightforward translation of the original source, I found this volume to be a real delight! The translators offer a brief introduction which provides appropriate historical information, a brief description on how the translation came about, the obligatory acknowledgements and expressions of gratitude, and then unabashedly straight into the translation itself! Footnotes are included where appropriate and yet the book is not overly annotated. Further commendable is that while the translators dispensed with the usual interjections of their own ideas and interpretations, they saw fit to include an index which provides the researcher with an all too often neglected, but valuable resource.
As to the content of the book itself... without offering the tedious 'interpretations' I chastise above (this is a book review and not a fencing lesson), I will simply state that for anyone with an interest in seventeenth century fencing, this tome would make a worthy addition to any fencing library. The original author's approach to fencing is as straightforward and direct as was the translator's approach towards it. Some readers might lament the lack of any illustration, but both the author (who declares his disdain for illustration in the text!) and the translators, succeed in having produced a volume in which the clear and descriptive language should convey the material satisfactorily to anyone familiar with the fencing literature of the period.
I thoroughly enjoyed this volume and the freedom to study the author's original words (albeit now in my native language) without the distractions of the translators' interjections. I hope to see more volumes being approached in such a fashion in the future, and I highly commend and applaud the translators for having done so in this one.
-John Farthing, Deputy Director (ARMA)
Association for Renaissance Martial Arts
July, 2014
(Review Originally Published at http//www.thearma.org/bookreviews.htm#.VBXji8Mo6po )
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