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17C Hand and a Half

Postby Martin_Wilkinson » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:53 pm

Does anyone know of a 17C Manual that deals with the Hand and a Half?

Preferably first half of the century, but it's not a problem if it's later.

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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

Postby SzabolcsWaldmann » Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:01 pm

Jacob Sutorius, for instance. But there is an Italian as well.


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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

Postby Joachim Nilsson » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:19 pm

If I'm not mistaken there is also an edition of Meyer from the 1600 hundreds.
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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

Postby Jon Pellett » Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:27 am

Sutor is basically just a ripoff of Meyer, though. There are some Italian spadone sources, like Alfieri, but those are more two-handed sword.

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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

Postby Martin_Wilkinson » Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:06 am

Does anybody know if were any period translations of these manuals?

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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

Postby steve hick » Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:18 pm

Hand and a half or great sword? If its relatively immaterial there's Jacob Sutor and another source in German (Veriolini?), there's Alfieri and Columbani in Italian (the latter is 18th century) and Figueriedo in Portuguese. Alfieri is around somewhere, so is Sutor, the Figueriedo is being worked, not sure if anyone has the others in hand yet.
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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

Postby Martin_Wilkinson » Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:57 pm

Hand and a Half, i just ordered Armourclass' 17C hand and a half <---

And want to know how it was acutally handled.

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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

Postby Martin_Wilkinson » Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:34 pm

Having looked around, i'm curious as to how you get into the members section of the site, as there are PDF's of a lot of manuals in there, that i'm interested in.

If it's not possible for me to get in there, does anyone have a PDF, or other, of a decent translation of either Meyer, or Alfieri, if so, could they please e-mail it to me.

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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

Postby Brian Hunt » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:22 am

Hi Martin,

you can find a translation of Meyer's longsword here http://www.schielhau.org/Meyer.title.html

As for Alfieri, I don't know where you can find a translation online.

As for the members section, if you are an ARMA member, you will have to obtain access from John Clements.

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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

Postby Martin_Wilkinson » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:38 pm

I live in england, so i'm not sure if it's possible for me to become a member of ARMA.


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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

Postby Joachim Nilsson » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:19 pm

Of course it is. We have members on a lot of continents and in a lot of countries.
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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

Postby Martin_Wilkinson » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:09 pm

How do i join?

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Re: 17C Hand and a Half

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