EditorialMedieval swordfight show. Performers with swords and shields fighting (top), Performers with swords and shields fighting accompanied by a bagpiper (middle), and two students fighting with bucklers and cudgels (bottom). Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph...
EditorialSwordfight by fencers with two-handed swords, 16th century. They wear slashed doublets over slashed culottes and stockings and codpieces. From Joachim Meyer's "Thorough Descriptions of the Art of Fencing," 1561. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's ...