LongEdge Press produces high quality translations, study guides and other resources, both print and digital, for modern practical HEMA swordsmen and swordswomen.

LongEdge Press aims to create resources that will extend the skills of practitioners who want to apply the principles of western swordsmanship, developed over 600 years, to any martial art or martial sport context.

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Visit this site's sister endeavour, LongEdge Fencing, a school of historical fencing dedicated to the style of swordplay described in period fencing textbooks written in French.

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Books and PDFs

High-quality and accurate translations of period French fencing treatises, training manuals and other books of interest to the historical fencer and HEMA practitioner. We insist that all translations meet two basic rules: 1) they must be easily readable in plain English, and 2) they capture accurately the message and personality conveyed by the author in the original text.

Book Catalog

• Secrets of the Sword Alone, Henry de Sainct Didier (1573)
• Two treatises on La Canne by Larribeau (1856) and Humé (1862)
• Fencing Through the Ages, Adolphe Corthey (1898)
• The Art of Fencing Reduced to a Methodical Summary, Jean de Brye (1721)
• Fencing Manual 1877, Ministry of War (1877)
• Archives of the Masters of Arms of Paris, Henri Daressy (1888)

PDF Catalog

• Manual of Contre-Point Fencing, Joseph Tinguely (1856) with an introduction by Julien Garry of De Taille et d’Estoc (Dijon, France)
• ​"André des Bordes: An Episode from the History of Sorcerers in the Lorraine", Henri Lepage (1857) in Bulletins de la Société d’Archéologie Lorraine, Vol. VII
• "The Strange Story of the Solicitous Phantom Cavalier who Fought a Duel on 27 January 1615 near Paris", Édouard Fournier (1855) in Variétés Historiques et Littéraires, Vol. III
• "Fencing Through the Ages -- The Cycle of the Sword", Georges Eekhoud, Brussels, 1984

Transcription Catalog

• Le Combat de Seul à Suel en Camp Clos (One on One Combat in the Lists), Marc de la Béraudière (1608)

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Workshops and Training Guides

A range of materials including workshop and seminar notes as well as training and practical guides which outline the key strategies, tactics and actions of a particular treatise of importance for the French school of fencing.

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