https://www.bruceleelibrary.jamescbishop.com/lib/files/original/34e0bd9a06ec16a3f746c5bc64ff5bfa.jpg 1ec2a9a594590c3205cc344a67299e73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Books Description An account of the resource Books owned or studied by Bruce Lee Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Bishop Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Doug Klinger, Marcos Ocana Book Author J. D. Alyward Publication Year 1956 Publisher Routledge & Kegan Paul Language English Subject Matter Swordfighting Description <p>This is a fascinating chapter of social history, not merely of fencing. It was the common custom of gentlemen to bear arms, and the background to this custom is an important aspect of the history of manners and conduct.</p> <p>Changes in social conditions made the weapon an accessory to dress rather than a protective equipment; but the enthusiasm for the cult of arms increased.</p> <p>Amply encouraged, the Master of Arms brought his art ever nearer to perfection; at the same time he became a recognized arbiter of conduct, for he insisted upon the exact observance of a strict code of honour, of courtesy, and of self-restraint.</p> <p>Essentially unassuming, he relied for his social influence upon his own example, and he seemed to his contemporaries such an unchanging unit in the established order of life that it did not occur to them to hand down their impressions to succeeding generations. This book is an effort to remedy their omission by recording from widely scattered sources the simple annals of the English Master of Arms, of how he emerged, established his schools and taught his art.</p> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The English Master of Arms: From the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century