[Ansteorra] Rapier question
Coblaith Muimnech
Coblaith at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 16 11:53:03 PDT 2009
Ld. Albin Oil de Larrun wrote:
> . . .does anyone know when the medieval sword changed into the
> rapier? And what the early rapiers may have looked like?
Don Tivar's website says, "The rapier developed in the mid-fifteenth
century, as an ornamental civilian sidearm that was commonly worn by
the upper and middle classes," and offers cites <http://
moondragon.info/wiki/
Rapier_Combat_and_the_Society_for_Creative_Anachronism>.
You can see illustrations from Marozzo's 1517 _Il Duello_ at <http://
jan.ucc.nau.edu/~wew/fencing/marozzo/marozzo_illus.html> and from
_DiGrassi, His True Arte of Defence_ (an English translation,
published in 1594, of Giacomo di Grassi's 1570 _Ragione di adoprar
sicuramente l'Arme, si da offesa come da difesa_) at <http://
www.cs.unc.edu/~hudson/digrassi/>.
Coblaith Muimnech
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