Notes
1 Edward Wagner, Cut and Thrust Weapons (London: Spring Books, 1967), pp. 67–77.
2 Examples of such publications include M. Lewis, ‘“Names of great Virtue and Power”: The Sword Szczerbiec and the Christian Magical Tradition,’ Waffen- und Kostümkunde, 2 (2021), 127–52; S. Brunning, The Sword In Early Medieval Northern Europe (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2019); T. Wagner et al., ‘“Innomine domini”: Medieval Christian Invocation Inscriptions on Sword Blades’, Waffen- und Kostümkunde, 1 (2009), 11–52; T. Wagner and J. Worley, ‘How to Make Swords Talk an Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Medieval swords and their inscriptions’, Waffen- und Kostümkunde, 2 (2013), pp. 113–32.
3 R. W. Jones, Bloodied Banners (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010).
4 R. W. Jones, ‘“.j. veel feble fauchon dil anxien temps.” The Selection of the Falchion as Symbol of Tenure: Form, Function and Symbolism’, in The Sword: Form and Thought, ed. by L. Deutscher, M. kaiser and S. Wetzler (Boydell: Woddbridge, 2019), pp. 167–75.
5 For an overview of the development of HEMA as a modern movement see D. Jaquet and I-E. Tzouriadis, Historical European Martial Arts: An International Overview (Centre of Martial Arts Studies under the auspice of UNESCO, 2020).
6 Examples include: B. Grotkamp-Schepers, I. Immel, P. Johnson and S. Wetzler, Das Schwert: Gestalt und Gedanke, eds. (Solingen: Deutsches Klingenmuseum, 2015), L. Deutscher, M. Kaiser and S. Wetzler, eds., The Sword: Form and Thought (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2019), J. Hošek, J. Košta, and P. Žákovský, Ninth to Mid-Sixteenth Century Swords from the Czech Republic in Their European Context: Part I – The Finds (Prague: The Czech Academy of Sciences, 2021), J. Hošek, J. Košta, and P. Žákovský, Ninth to Mid-Sixteenth Century Swords from the Czech Republic in their European Context: Part II – Swords of Medieval and Early Renaissance Europe as a Technological and Archaeological Source (Prague: The Czech Academy of Sciences, 2021), N. Fleck, A. Müller, and H. Grieb, Hieb- und Stichfest: Waffenkunde und Living History. Festschrift für Alfred Geibig (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag GmbH, 2020), and Sue Brunning, The Sword In Early Medieval Northern Europe (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2019).