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Zusatztext “Like swordplay itself! By the Sword is elegant! accurate! romantic! and full of brio—the definitive study! hugely readable! of man’s most deadly art.” —Simon Winchester “Touché! While scrupulous and informed about its subject! Richard Cohen’s book is about more than swordplay. It reads at times like an alternative social history of the West.” —Sebastian Faulks “In writing By the Sword ! [Cohen] has shown that he is as skilled with the pen as he is with the sword.” — The New York Times “Irresistible . . . extraordinary . . . vivid and hugely enjoyable.” — The Economist “A virtual encyclopedia on the subject of sword fighting.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Literate! learned! and! beg pardon! razor-sharp . . . a pleasure for practitioners! and a rewarding entertainment for the armchair swashbuckler.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Informationen zum Autor Richard Cohen, M.A., ist Psychotherapeut, Pädagoge und Autor von sieben wegweisenden Büchern. Er ist Experte auf dem Gebiet der Sexualorientierungstherapie und hat weltweit über 6.000 Therapeuten und Gemeindedienst-Leiter ausgebildet. Da er selbst ein schwules Leben führte, weiß Cohen, wie es sich tief innen anfühlt. Er hat seinen eigenen Weg der Heilung durchlaufen, um seine Träume zu verwirklichen. Cohen und seine Frau sind seit vierundvierzig Jahren verheiratet und haben drei erwachsene Kinder. Als Psychotherapeut hat er Tausenden von Männern und Frauen geholfen, ihre Hoffnungen und Ziele zu erreichen. Klappentext "Like swordplay itself, By the Sword is elegant, accurate, romantic, and full of brio-the definitive study, hugely readable, of man's most deadly art."-Simon Winchester With a new Preface by the author Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who as a schoolboy would practice fencing with Bess-his future wife- when the two of them returned home from school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christ's divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was "off to get spaghetti," their code to avoid alarming the children. By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting-a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since. With wit and insight, Richard Cohen gives us an engrossing history of the world via the sword. Praise for By the Sword "Touché! While scrupulous and informed about its subject, Richard Cohen's book is about more than swordplay. It reads at times like an alternative social history of the West."-Sebastian Faulks "In writing By the Sword, [Cohen] has shown that he is as skilled with the pen as he is with the sword."-The New York Times "Irresistible . . . extraordinary . . . vivid and hugely enjoyable."-The Economist "A virtual encyclopedia on the subject of sword fighting."-San Francisco Chronicle "Literate, learned, and, beg pardon, razor-sharp . . . a pleasure for practitioners, and a rewarding entertainment for the armchair swashbuckler."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Leseprobe Chapter 1 How It All Began The great authority on early arms, ewart oakeshott, believes that swords first appeared between 1500 and 1100 b.c. in Minoan Crete and Celtic Britain. Remarkably quickly, they became an implement of sport: the oldest known depiction of an actual fencing match is a relief in the Temple of Madinat Habu, built by Ramses III around 1190 b.c., near Luxor in Upper Egypt. (To its right is an engraving of a pile of trophy penises, hacked from the enemy dead-practice well, the sequence suggests, and this can be your reward.) The men are clearly not dueling-they ...
