A volume of historical combat terms, as well as essays on broadswords, rapiers, smallswords, and storytelling. Including essays by David Blixt, Jared Kirby, and Mike Leoni, and a glossary of terms culled from The Fightmaster’s Companion by Dale Girard. Includes:
- Biographies of history’s Fight Masters
- A list of primary sources for research
- A glossary with over 2,500 historical fighting terms
- The origins of phrases like ‘flash in the pan’,
‘let the cat out of the bag’, ‘fly off the handle’, & more
Originally created for the Historical Novel Society 2015 North American Conference