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The most detailed and comprehensive treatise on swordsmanship ever written, Gerard Thibault's Academy of the Sword offers an extraordinary glimpse into a forgotten landscape of ideas, in which Pythagorean sacred geometry illuminated the lethal realities of rapier combat to create one of the Western world's only thoroughly documented esoteric martial arts. Translated by the widely respected occultist and scholar John Michael Greer, this stunningly illustrated and precisely detailed manual of Renaissance swordsmanship is a triumphant document of Renaissance culture-as well as a practical manual of a martial art that can still be studied and practiced today.

Table of Contents:
Translator’s Introduction Author’s notice: On The Consideration of the Figures in this Book Chapter One: On the Proportions of the Human Body, Related to the Figure of our Circle and to the Proper Length of the Sword Chapter Two: On the Proportions of the Body Chapter Three: On the Correct Way of Drawing the Sword and Entering into Measure Chapter Four: On the Posture of the Straight Line Chapter Five: On Attacks at the First Instance, and Feints Chapter Six: On Attacks and Counters on the Straight Line Chapter Seven: On the Timing of Attacks and Counters Chapter Eight: On Imbrocades Chapter Nine: On Sentiment Chapter Ten: On Sentiment, Continued Chapter Eleven: On Entering Within the Angles Chapter Twelve: On Entering Within the Angles, Continued Chapter Thirteen: On An Alternate Guard Chapter Fourteen: On Cuts Chapter Fifteen: On Techniques Outside the Arm Chapter Sixteen: On Pauses Chapter Seventeen: On Cuts, Continued Chapter Eighteen: On Cuts To The Right Arm Chapter Nineteen: On Obliging the Blade Chapter Twenty: The academy of The sword Chapter Twenty-one: On Attacks of First Intention Chapter Twenty-two: On Diverse Counters Chapter Twenty-three: On Another Alternate Guard Chapter Twenty-four: On Different Postures Chapter Twenty-five: On Subtle Variations Chapter Twenty-six: On Subjecting to the Inside Chapter Twenty-seven: On Parrying Chapter Twenty-eight: On Unnatural Postures Chapter Twenty-nine: On Unnatural Postures, Continued Chapter Thirty: On Maintaining the Advantage Chapter Thirty-one: On Obliging the Blade, Revisited Chapter Thirty-two: On Attacks of First Intention, Revisited Chapter Thirty-three: On the Postures of Salvatore Fabris Introduction To Book Two Chapter Thirty-four: On Facing the Sword and Dagger Chapter Thirty-five: On Facing the Sword and Dagger, Continued Chapter Thirty-six: On Facing the Sword and Dagger, Further Continued Chapter Thirty-seven: On Facing the Sword and Dagger, Concluded Chapter Thirty-eight: On Facing the Sword and Shield Chapter Thirty-nine: On Facing the Sword and Shield, Continued Chapter Forty: On Facing the Two-Handed Sword Chapter Forty-one: On Facing the Two-Handed Sword, Continued Chapter Forty-two: On Facing the Two-Handed Sword, Concluded Chapter Forty-three: On Facing the Left-Handed Swordsman Chapter Forty-four: On Facing the Musketeer Note to the Reader Glossary of Terms

About the Author :
Gerard Thibault d'Anvers (ca. 1574-1627) was a Dutch fencing master and author of the 1628 rapier manual 'Academie de l'Espee' ('The Academy of the Sword'). His manual is one of the most detailed and elaborate extant sources on rapier combat, painstakingly utilizing geometry and logic to defend his unorthodox style of swordsmanship. One of the most widely respected voices in contemporary occult studies, John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including 'The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, The Druidry Handbook, The Celtic Golden Dawn', and 'Circles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic'. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He lives in Cumberland, Maryland, an old mill town in the Appalachian mountains of western Maryland, with his wife Sara.John Michael Greer is also the author of four books on peak oil and the future of industrial society, 'The Long Descent, The Ecotechnic Future, The Wealth of Nature' and 'Not The Future We Ordered', and also writes the widely cited peak oil blog "The Archdruid Report".


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781904658917
  • Publisher: Aeon Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Aeon Books Ltd
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1904658911
  • Publisher Date: 20 Feb 2017
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 512


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