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Author:   Tony Wolf
Publisher:   FreeLance Academy Press
Imprint:   FreeLance Academy Press
Weight:   1.723kg
ISBN:  

9780982591185

ISBN 10:   0982591187
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   31 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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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