{"product_id":"the-art-of-sword-fighting-hardback","title":"The Art of Sword Fighting (hardback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 135%; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 135%; font-family: \" .sfns-regular mso-bidi-font-family: color:\u003eWritten in the late fifteenth century for the Duke of Urbino, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 135%; font-family: \" .sfns-regularitalic mso-bidi-font-family: color:\u003eDe Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 135%; font-family: \" .sfns-regular mso-bidi-font-family: color:\u003e is one of the most important surviving works on knightly combat. In this companion volume to the Spada Press facsimile, Guy Windsor presents the most comprehensive modern engagement with Philippo Vadi’s treatise to date.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 135%; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0e0e0e; font-family: \" .sfns-regular font-size:\u003eThis volume combines an English translation with detailed commentary, historical analysis, and practical interpretation of every play in the manuscript. Drawing on decades of full-time research, teaching, and embodied practice, Dr. Windsor examines not only what Vadi wrote, but what his words mean in action—and why his system works as a coherent, rational art of arms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 135%; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0e0e0e; font-family: \" .sfns-regular font-size:\u003eSituating the manuscript within its historical, intellectual, and martial contexts, the book explores Vadi’s relationship to Fiore dei Liberi and traces the development of Italian swordsmanship at the threshold of the Renaissance. Linked video demonstrations provide a rare bridge between text, image, and movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 135%; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0e0e0e; font-family: \" .sfns-regular font-size:\u003eWhether read as a work of history, a guide to martial practice, or a study in Renaissance thought, this book offers a clear, rigorous, and deeply informed account of one of Europe’s foundational fighting systems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right: .2pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: \" helvetica\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spada Press","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":66895444279600,"sku":"9781918229042","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-art-of-sword-fighting-hardback","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}