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:

From Medieval Manuscript to Modern Practice: The Dagger Techniques of Fiore dei Liberi

Complete the series and pre-order your copy now!

Buy now and your copy will be printed and shipped on 15th November.

In this volume Guy takes you through all 76 of Fiore's dagger techniques. Each technique (or “play”) is shown with the drawing from the treatise, his transcription and translation of the text, his commentary on how it fits into the system and works in practice, and a link to a video of the technique in action. The book also contains a detailed introduction describing Fiore's life and times, and extensive discussion of the contexts in which Fiore's art belongs.

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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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Online Courses

  • Master the Art of Arms

    Access to everything!

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  • Introduction to Historical Martial Arts

    The perfect place to discover the historical martial art that's right for you.

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  • Medieval Italian Martial Arts

    Everything Fiore and Vadi

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  • Medieval German Martial Arts

    Medieval German wrestling, longsword and sword and buckler

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  • Renaissance Italian Martial Arts

    Bolognese swordsmanship and the rapier.

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  • Solo Training

    Train body and mind in historical martial arts when all alone.

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Bundles and Box Sets

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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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Latest News: 10 October '25

Hi!

I’m running a flash sale starting today, on the combined Philippo Vadi Longsword and Dagger courses bundle. Bought separately these courses cost $850. The Bundle is $600. And you can get 30% off the bundle for the next few days. Just put the code WELOVEVADI2025 into the little box at checkout. Hurrah!

That’s still a lot of money though, so you can also find both courses in the Mastering the Art of Arms and the Italian Medieval Combat subscriptions here.

Double Hurrah!

If you’re not sure about the courses, that’s fine. I’ve put up a blog post with a couple of sample videos here which may help.

I will send out a couple of email reminders before the sale ends. If you don’t want to receive them you can opt out with this link, which will take you to a rapier blog post, but also tell my email system to opt you out of the reminders.

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