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Buckler front and back Sword and buckler combat, plate from the Tacuinum Sanitatis illustrated in Lombardy, ca. 1390. Irish round shield. A buckler (French bouclier 'shield', from Old French bocle, boucle 'boss') is a small shield, up to 45 cm (up to 18 in) in diameter, [1] gripped in the fist with a central handle behind the boss.
16th century woodcut of an Italian fencer wielding a Rodela/Rotella. Rodeleros ("shield bearers"), also called espadachines ("swordsmen") and colloquially known as "Sword and Buckler Men", were Spanish troops in the early 16th (and again briefly in the 17th) century, equipped with steel shields known as rodela and swords (usually of the side-sword type).
The term companion weapon is used in historical European martial arts to refer to an item used in conjunction with the larger weapon in the non-sword hand while fencing with a rapier or sword. The popular companion weapon forms include: sword and buckler; sword/rapier and parrying dagger; rapier and cloak [1]
Civilian weapons include single sword, sword and cape, sword and dagger, and sword and Brocchiero (Buckler). The military weapons are the two-handed sword, spear, shield and spear, sword and targe, and sword and rotella. The civil weapons championship is one of the largest HEMA tournaments in the world. [30]
The treatise expounds a martial system of defensive and offensive techniques between a master and a pupil, referred to as sacerdos (priest) and scolaris (student), each armed with a sword and a buckler, drawn in ink and watercolour and accompanied with Latin text, interspersed with German fencing terms. On the last two pages, the pupil is ...
Example of an illustration of half-sword, c. 1418: Islan the monk executes a half-sword thrust against Volker the minstrel (CPG 359, fol. 46v). fol. 2r of the Cod. 44 A 8, depicting two fencers in the vom tag and alber wards. Illustration of a half-sword thrust against a mordhau in armoured longsword combat. (Plate 214) Codex Wallerstein.
The MS I.33 manuscript, dated to ca. 1290, shows fencing with the arming sword and the buckler. As time passed, the spatha evolved into the arming sword , a weapon with a notable cruciform hilt common among knights in the Medieval Age.
An introduction to the use of single sword and sword and buckler, according to the work of Achille Marozzo by Phil Marshall and Oliver Barker of The School of the Sword. An introduction to the play of two swords, one in each hand, according to the work of Achille Marozzo by Phil Marshall and Oliver Barker of The School of the Sword.