Another interesting blog post from a historical reenactor with copious primary-source citations: How to hold a lance on foot for single combat.
One of the excellent sources: The 1459 "Fight Book" by Hans Talhoffer:
http://www.thearma.org/Fight-Earnestly.htm
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The color plates of hand-to-hand combat in the PDF linked from that page are excellent--sometimes horrifying and occasionally very funny. A few of them could be read as sequential art, particularly the "how to fight a guy standing in a hole" ones.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the guy on page 299 will be my next PC portrait.