Daggers are mentioned in many modern books about medieval and Renaissance swordplay, but until now none described how daggers were used in combat. Drawing from sources written from 1409-1600 (including the works of Hans Talhoffer, Fiore dei Liberi, Filippo Vadi, Joachim Meyer and more), this book uses step-by-step photos and historic illustrations to demonstrate the deadly and effective techniques of European dagger fighting.
Talhoffer and the others were men with real fighting experience, not self-promoted"grand masters" or denizens of the training hall, and they wrote the manuals that form the basis for Medieval and Renaissance Dagger Combat. The dynamics of the knife fight have not changed over the centuries, and the masters' lessons are as useful against an attacker with today's tactical folder as they were against the first dagger.
- ISBN10 158160517X
- ISBN13 9781581605174
- Publish Date 15 March 2009 (first published 1 July 2006)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 26 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Paladin Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 234
- Language English