Two swords?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

first of all, sorry for the nickname but i had some problems with the registration. My name is Andrea Simeone, i'm Italian and i teach and learn italian and german medieval swordsmanship.

I can't find books that explains the medieval two swords fighting.
Probably it doesn't exist but actually seems strange that noone thought about that. Is that fighting really useless in medieval combat?

As far as i see, at least it's really spectacular.


Thank you for info and sorry for my english

[LafayetteCCurtis]

Yes, you're correct in assuming that we don't have any surviving material on two-sword combat in medieval Europe. What little we have comes from the 16th century and is strictly limited to personal dueling. Giacomo di Grassi even explicitly states that the two-sword style is thoroughly useless on the battlefield, and my few amateur experiments (and the experience of some seasoned ARMA fighters here) have convinced me that he's probably correct.

I asked about the same subject in an earlier thread, and got a deluge of enlightening responses:

http://www.thearma.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22432

[Axel Pettersson]

Curtis is right as far as I know, using 2 swords (or two rapiers) seems to be a fencing salle thing (no less martial for that of cource!).

Here are some videoclips of 2 sword plays from di grassi,manciolini and marozzo. It is in Italian even,I've only studied Italian for two years so you can translate it for us .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAKGtD07u6I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fChS2BWBVo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi2sdIQF_lU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8xGvWkdjQ4

[Gene Tausk]

Hi,

first of all, sorry for the nickname but i had some problems with the registration. My name is Andrea Simeone, i'm Italian and i teach and learn italian and german medieval swordsmanship.

I can't find books that explains the medieval two swords fighting.
Probably it doesn't exist but actually seems strange that noone thought about that. Is that fighting really useless in medieval combat?

As far as i see, at least it's really spectacular.


Thank you for info and sorry for my english

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[Andrea Simeone]

as requested, here's my new account.

thank you for the info, and if you need the translation for those videos just ask