Table of Contents

Medical Reality of Historical Wounds; Dispelling Myths About the Early History of Rapier Fencing in England; Finding the Sword or Stringers; Further Thoughts on the Mechanics of Combat with Large Shields; The Circle and the Sword: A Focus on Carranza and Pacheco de Narvdez in Renaissance Spain; Italian Circle Theory: A Study of Applied Geometry of the Italian Renaissance; Re-Interpretation of some aspects of Sword and Buckler System in RA MS 1.33; The Words "Claymore" and "Broadsword"; The Forgotten Weapon: The Partisan in Italy in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries.