The Academy of the SwordThe most detailed and comprehensive treatise on swordsmanship ever written, Gerard Thibault's Academy of the Sword offers an extraordinary glimpse into a forgotten landscape of ideas, in which Pythagorean sacred geometry illuminated the lethal realities of rapier combat to create one of the Western world's only thoroughly documented esoteric martial arts. Translated by the widely respected occultist and scholar John Michael Greer, this stunningly illustrated and precisely detailed manual of Renaissance swordsmanship is a triumphant document of Renaissance culture-as well as a practical manual of a martial art that can still be studied and practiced today. |
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Contents
TRANSLATORS INTRODUCTION | |
Chapter | |
Enumeration and appellations of all the lines and figures of the circle | |
Of the excellence and dignity of the present circle in this exercise | |
Concerning the twelve numbers of the blade and their graduation | |
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Chapter Three | |
Chapter Four | |
Chapter Five | |
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Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Eight | |
Chapter Nine | |
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Chapter Eleven | |
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Academy of the Sword: Wherein is Demonstrated by Mathematical Rules on the ... Gérard Thibault,John Michael Greer No preview available - 2006 |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Academy of the Sword |
| Author | Gerard Thibault d'Anvers |
| Translated by | John Michael Greer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Aeon Books, 2017 |
| ISBN | 1904658911, 9781904658917 |
| Length | 512 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / Ancient |
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