Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay

Featuring period drawings and prints of swordplay, this book examines and compares the only three existing Elizabethan fencing manuals written in English before 1600: Giacomo Di Grassi’s His True Arte of Defense (1594), Vincentio Saviolo’s His Practice in Two Bookes (1595), and George Silver’s Paradoxes of Defence and Bref Instructions Upon my Paradoxes of Defence (1599).
More than a technical manual on swordplay, this book explores the influence of a new form of violence introduced into Elizabethan culture by the invention of the rapier. The authors examine the rapier’s influence on the various social classes, the clash between the traditional English fencing masters and those embracing the new style, the growing concern with unregulated dueling, and the frequent references to rapier play in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
As producer Joseph Papp notes in his Foreword, this is a book that "makes a difference in performance."

Tony Soper

Craig, Turner

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Southern Illinois University Press

Words of Faith recounts the conversations of God with three great saints: Saint Margaret of Cortona, Saint Bridget of Sweden, and Saint Catherine of Siena. In these pages the deep inner life and the personal relationship with God of these holy women is revealed, offering a blueprint for our own spiritual life. Taken from their own writings or from the writings of those close them, these with God offer an intimate glimpse at the saintly soul’s relationship with the Almighty Father. It is at once a model for us as we strive to deepen our Faith and our relationship with God, and a revealing picture of a God who loves us. Words of Faith is the perfect devotional for those who wish to strengthen their Faith after the example of the saints.

Words of Faith: Revelations of Our Lord to Saints Margaret of Cortona, Bridget of Sweden and Catherine of Siena

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