Welcome to Swordschool!

For students of Medieval and Renaissance Italian martial arts.

Where historical accuracy meets practical training.

Books, facsimiles, audiobooks, online courses and t-shirts from world-renowned instructor and pioneering researcher of medieval and renaissance martial arts Dr Guy Windsor.

What's new in store?

The Armizare Vade Mecum

The Flower of Battle, arranged in verse!

Both concise and profound, sometimes darkly humorous, this reference guide provides the modern student with a practical tool for learning Fiore’s deadly art, while paying homage to the legendary master himself.

Now available in both ebook and audiobook format

Find your thing

  • Do you like the theory?

    Want to know how to research, how to train, or how to write about historical martial arts?

    Theory and Practice 

  • Do you want step-by-step instructions?

    Choose to learn rapier or longsword from a workbook with video links. Make notes as you learn with these specially designed books.

    Workbooks 

  • Interested in the original treatises?

    See facsimiles of original sources, translations and Guy's interpretations.

    Treatises, translations, and academic interpretations 

  • Medieval Longsword

    Are you madly medieval? Check out the medieval combat collection!

    Longsword 

  • Renaissance Rapier

    Do you rave about the rapier? Learn Renaissance Italian martial arts, including the rapier fencing of Ridolfo Capoferro.

    Rapier 

  • Video Courses

    Do you learn best from video? Check out Swordschool's extensive selection of online courses.

    Online courses 

Hardbacks and Facsimiles

Fill your bookshelf with beautiful hardback editions of Guy's works and affordable facsimiles of Vadi and Fiore.
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Paperbacks

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Workbooks

Learn Armizare or Rapier in these practical ring-bound workbooks, available in left-handed and right-handed versions, to make note-taking easy.
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Audiobooks

All audiobooks are delivered instantly by email from BookFunnel, to listen to in their dedicated audiobook app.

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Ebooks

All e-books are delivered instantly by email from BookFunnel for you to read on whichever device you like.

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Bundles and Box Sets

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Online courses

T-Shirts

From medieval sword and buckler to the elegant smallsword, and most weapons in between: showcasing famous women in the historical martial arts. Walpurgis? Lady Agnes? La Maupin? absolutely. And now including La Chevalière d'Eon.

And The Sword Guy podcast and Sword People community shirts too!

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Looking for something related to a particular master?

Latest News: 14 February '25

Hi!

So you made it through the launch-process winnowing, well done! All in all, the launch sequence for Von Baumann triggered 59 unsubscribes, which is about normal- the average number of unsubscribes per newsletter email is about 5. And 116 people chose to click the ‘don’t send me any of that German wrestling stuff!’ link, thus avoiding the temptation to unsubscribe altogether. Hurrah!

Other than the excellent folk who chose to buy the course, my favourite response to the launch was this, from Steve: “Thank you, this sounds awesome but I already know German jiu-jitsu.”

https://youtu.be/xQKykW0epIA?si=NbBXrWM36JfH8HQj

The video is priceless.

Speaking of courses, I have now added Esko Ronimus’s “Introduction to Bolognese Swordsmanship: dall’Agocchie's Varying Guards Form” course to the Mastering the Art of Arms subscription package on both swordpeople.com and courses.swordschool.com. If you’re already subscribed, it should be there in your dashboard already. And if not, feel free!

So what of the other projects?

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