Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago

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There Was No Renaissance - by Dr. Lynette Nusbacher

00:00 Lecture
28:25 Practice

Innovation, Conservatism, Travel and Salvator Fabris’s Science of Arms (1606)

This will be a hands-on exploration of rapier and dagger fencing, based firmly on the Science of Arms by Salvator Fabris (1544-1618). Participants will seek to answer the question whether Fabris represents continuity with previous fencing styles and techniques, or whether he and his school were creating new, scientific ways of combat to support changes in weapons technology.

We will explore body positions and modes of attack and defence from fighting manuals that came before Salvator Fabris, and look for continuity, evolution and innovation in his work during his lifetime, and afterward.

Participants can be beginning, intermediate or advanced fencers; more or less familiar with Fabris’s work. Those wishing to do advance reading can find the source material here:
wiktenauer.com/wiki/Salvator_Fabris#Second_Part_-_Of_Sword_and_Dagger
wiktenauer.com/wiki/Salvator_Fabris#Second_Part_-_On_Proceeding_with_Resolution_with_Sword_and_Dagger

In historical fencing or HEMA (for Historical European Martial Arts) we reconstruct sword fighting systems from historical sources. Our club focuses on Italian medieval and renaissance sources, fencing with the Spadone (Two-Handed Sword), Spear, Sidesword (One-Handed Sword) together with Shield, Cape, Dagger, you name it!

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