A Note on the Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Edgerton Castle
Chapter 2: Alfred Hutton
Chapter 3: The Kernoozers Club
Chapter 4: Early Revivals and Grand Assaults-at-Arms
Chapter 5: The First Generation
Chapter 6: Exhibitions of Ancient Swordplay (1888-92)
Chapter 7: Hutton's Cold Steel and Old Sword Play
Chapter 8: Verie Many Weapons: More Exhibitions of Ancient
Swordplay (1893-6)
Chapter 9: Sword Fighting and Sword Play (1897-8)
Chapter 10: The Headquarters of Ancient Swordplay: The Bartitsu
Club (1899-1902)
Chapter 11: Drawing to a Close (1902-8)
Chapter 12: Last of the Old Swordsmen (1910-20)
Chapter 13: Whither, Ancient Swordplay?
Chapter 14: L'Escrime a Travers les Ages (A Return to Monnaie,
1894)
Chapter 15: The Artistic Archaeology of Vanished Fighting Arts:
Georges Dubois and l'Escrime Ancienne
Gallery
Appendix
Selected Bibliography and Further Reading
New Zealand citizen and US resident Tony Wolf has spent more than
thirty-five years in an international career blending the martial
and the creative arts. He has authored or edited nine books and
numerous articles for journals, anthologies, websites and
encyclopedias. His script for the one-act play Satisfaction tied
for first place in the 2006 Joining Sword and Pen international
playwriting competition.
Tony's fight choreography and action design have been featured in
more than two hundred stage, screen and video game productions,
including cultural fighting styles design for the Lord of the Rings
trilogy. A pioneer of motion capture action design, he was also
instrumental in the revival of Bartitsu, a mixed martial art
created at the turn of the twentieth century.
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