{"id":858,"date":"2016-04-11T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=858"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:41:25","slug":"ecole-des-armes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/ecole-des-armes\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Acquisition: L’\u00c9cole des armes (The School of Fencing)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Domenico Angelo. L’\u00c9cole des armes: avec l\u2019explication g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des principals attitudes et positions concernant l\u2019escrime. . . .<\/em> London: R & J Dodsley, 1763.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domenico Angelo (c1717-1802) was an Italian fencing master whose School of Arms in Soho, London brought continental small-sword techniques to a fashionable English clientele that included members of the royal family. His L’\u00c9cole des armes (The School of Fencing)<\/em>, first published in London in 1763, went on to become the most influential instructional of the later eighteenth century (and the immediate source for the article on fencing in Diderot\u2019s Encyclop\u00e9die<\/em><\/a>). It is also a lavish book, an oblong folio (29 x 47 cm) containing 47 engraved plates after John Gwynn. Together, Angelo\u2019s text (written in French) and Gwynn\u2019s images provide a course of instruction that emphasizes both the cultivation of poise and grace and practical modes of self-defense.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Plate 14: Cinquieme position du Salut.<\/em> (Fifth position of the Salute.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Plate 21: De la parade de prime sur le coup de second.<\/em> (Of the parade called prime against\u00a0the second thrust.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Plate 46: L’ep\u00e9e & Lanterne combattiie par l’ep\u00e9e & Manteau<\/em>. (The sword & Lantern against the sword & Cloak.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Rare Books and Special Collections recently acquired a first edition of L’\u00c9cole des armes<\/em>, an important addition to the early modern sport-related titles in the Joyce Sports Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Domenico Angelo. L’\u00c9cole des armes: avec l\u2019explication g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des principals attitudes et positions concernant l\u2019escrime. . . . London: R & J Dodsley, 1763. Domenico Angelo (c1717-1802) was an Italian fencing master whose School of Arms in Soho, London brought continental small-sword techniques to a fashionable English clientele that included members of the royal family. … Continue reading Recent Acquisition: L’\u00c9cole des armes (The School of Fencing)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75061,12646,75063],"tags":[77938,75749],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modern-european-cultures","category-miscellaneous","category-sports-research","tag-book","tag-recent-acquisitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11668,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/11668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}