"The Knightly Art of Battle" by . Mondschein

The Knightly Art of Battle . Mondschein

Series:
Getty Publications - (Yale)
Format:
Paperback / softback
Publication date:
20 Oct 2011
ISBN:
9781606060766
Imprint:
Getty Publications
Dimensions:
128 pages: 235 x 165 x 12mm
Illustrations:
86 full-colour illustrations

Categories:

This is an extravagantly illustrated and engrossing exploration of the art of medieval fighting. This volume offers an intriguing look into the world of late medieval martial arts, from wrestling to swordsmanship and to the subtle tricks that could be employed when jousting on horseback. Using exceptional pen drawings (with gold leaf highlights) the book features some of the most interesting abstracts from Fior di Battaglia (The Flower of Battle), a manuscript by the renowned Italian fencing master Fiore dei Liberi depicting the knightly arts of fighting. The copy in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, created in the early 15th-century, is the finest and most complete manuscript to survive. Offering detailed visual documentation of Fiore's techniques coupled with the author's genius for explaining sophisticated methods of offense and defence, the manuscript provides a comprehensive record of the skills by which men lived and died in the Middle Ages.

Ken Mondschein is an adjunct professor at American International College, and a fencing instructor at the Higgins Armory Museum.

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