ES - period manual of sword and shield

Paul Mitchell Paul_Mitchell at Filemaker.com
Fri Mar 26 12:05:14 PST 1999


Todd Marsh recently said:

>In several recent discussions at fighter practices, I have talked about a
>book written in period on how to fight with sword and shield.  Actually, it
>is two books, and they are available on-line.
>
<snip>
>http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/paradoxes.html
><http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/paradoxes.html> 
>
>The second book, "Brief Instructions on my Paradoxes of Defense", has more
>detail on how to use the weapons Silver likes.
>
>http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/brief.html
><http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/brief.html> 
>
>Llywelyn

Maybe I went through these too quick, but I didn't see anything
about shields.  The first seemed simply to be a diatribe against
rapiers.  The second had some advice about how to fight with what
he called a "short sword" (couldn't tell what length he meant),
but I didn't see anything about fighting with a medieval-sized
shield.

Am I missing something?

- Galen
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