Fencing
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...cavalry saber and the Middle Eastern scimitar and...use since the Bronze Age, and nearly all people...spectators and judges. In the Middle Ages, swords were essential...scientific theory. Fencing schools, or salles, frequented...Masters of Fencing from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth...