AGEA Editora

13/09/2024

Aaand... here it is!
Francisco Lorenz de Rada's «Crisol de La Verdadera Destreza y Filosofía Matemática de las Armas»!

216 pages!
25 fold-out diagrams!
Endless hours of fun!
Plus a non-zero chance of losing your mind and / or your soul, depending on which Elder One you end up invoking!

Jokes aside -- this is a major milestone in our publishing trajectory, because Rada is *the* definitive Destreza master. It can argued, very convincingly, that with him Destreza reaches its theoretical peak -- not quite with this work, but in his magnum opus «Nobleza de la Espada»... which is 1300+ pages long, so this is a stepping stone in that direction.

Rada's «Crisol» is (relatively) approachable in comparinson. Rada is methodical, and builds up from page to page. He made sure to provide ample graphical aid to help visualize his words, and we have painstakingly cleansed and reproduced the original diagrams, even correcting a couple of them where Rada himself spotted mistakes.

If you are a serious Destreza scholar, this is a book you absolutely must have -- and this time this is not hyperbole.

Plus: the first 50 or so orders will get, for free, an A3-size poster of Rada's second diagram, the Universal Demonstration of the distances in his system of fencing.

What are you waiting for?

Get your copy at https://ageaeditora.com/livros/crisol-de-la-verdadera-destreza-y-filosofia-matematica-de-las-armas/

26/08/2024

We have just spent a wonderful weekend at the 5th International Martial Studies Conference, organized by the good people from the International Guoshu Association 中華國術總會 .

We learned a lot about the Chinese martial tradition, and hopefully left some understanding of the Iberian legacy of Verdadeira Destreza.

It was great too to meet old friends - cheers Daniel Jacquet and Eric Burkart! - and make new ones: Yumeng Hou, your work on martial ontologies is fascinating; Stephen Shelby, thanks for being our east-west liaison.

Finally, our acknowledgement and thanks for the great work that Kang-Yi Liu and Hing Chao have done.

Lets keep it up!

22/08/2024

Heading to Taiwan to shine the light of Destreza at the 5th International Martial Studies Conference 😉

10/07/2024

Imminently.

04/03/2024

A military treatise from the beginning of the 17th century believed to have been lost. There is a single copy in the Coimbra Library.

We present a critical edition of this work where the author’s military life is recounted, along with advice and experiences to carry out military operations both on land and at sea.

It is interesting a section on the handling of the pike and other weapons as well as the ways of fighting at sea and on land, organization of the army, military positions, etc.

In the introduction we include the parts that deal with the handling of the pike in other contemporary treatises, as well as a summary of the abundant military tradition of this time.

Make your orders at:

https://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/bisonho/

03/08/2023

Aaand -- in other news: did you know we are currently going through the second edition, revised and expanded, of «La Espada de dos Manos y el Montante»?

The first run burnt through quickly a year ago. Grab your copy of this one before the same thing happens to it:

https://ageaeditora.com/livros/la-espada-de-dos-manos-y-el-montante/

03/08/2023

Here it is, like every year, Dr. Manuel ValleOrtiz's conference at the XIV «Torre de Hércules» HEMA meeting in Corunha. This year, on the evolution of Iberian fencing through the XVIII century. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/eC2LF0Jg5yc

19/05/2023

Our head researcher, Manuel ValleOrtiz , is currently lecturing about the evolution of Destreza at HEMAC Dijon . The public bravely holds, even though it is the second conference of the afternoon. Probably the promise of Acta Periodica Duellatorum 's bubbles afterwards keeps their hopes high.

17/05/2023

Ton Puey and Edu Varela are driving a literal car full of books to the HEMAC Dijon , and we have sold half of them already before arriving!

HEMAC Dijon Sacauntos Cooperativa Gráfica Academia da Espada

16/05/2023

Thanks to the work of Ash Mestizo (Javier Bermúdez-Prado), we can bring you this dual-language edition of «Understanding Destreza», by Álvaro Guerra de la Vega, originally published in 1681.

This work is delightfully brief, considering the average Destreza treatise, a feature we are sure many of you will appreciate. It is, nonetheless, an interesting summary of the main tenets of the iberian fencing style of the baroque. It expounds on some of the main concepts used in Destreza, such as the «medio de proporción», and even elaborates on how to approach italianate fencers from a Destreza perspective.

For the advanced Destreza researcher, the text shows a Carrancist streak defying the hegemonic Pachequist tendency, in which the author was raised, singalling therefore this source as a relevant case of study.

The book is laid out with the transcription and the translation facing opposite pages, so you can compare them. The translation has been profusely annotated, both to explain the choices made, and to contextualize the original material. We have cleaned up the images from the original, including the spread-out sheet representing the «italian» and the «spanish» stances.

Get one at the AGEA Editora website (shipping and handling will begin from may 23rd onwards):

https://ageaeditora.com/livros/understanding-destreza/
..or, if you are attending the HEMAC Dijon event, find Manuel ValleOrtiz and get your copy now!

20/04/2023

Will we manage to have it in time for HEMAC Dijon?
Yes, we surely will.
Will we?
Probably.
Maybe?

09/12/2022

Here we go -- second run!

The first 100 copies of the «100 Conclusions» (ha!) were sold in the first 24 hours, so we pressured the good folks at Sacauntos Cooperativa Gráfica to print another ten squared as soon as they could, and they delivered: as of right now, you can order your copy:

http://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/the-one-hundred-conclusions/

Or, remember: if you wasnt to compare the translation with our critical edition of the source text (in Spanish), get your 2x pack with 50% discount on the second book:

http://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/the-one-hundred-conclusions-pack-2x/

Enjoy them while they last!

04/12/2022

Listen to the fascinating proceedings of yesterday's IFHEMA MAM symposium - with Karin Verelst, An Smets, Wiebe Mokken, Miriam Vogelaar, Manuel Valle Ortiz, Roberto Gotti, Daniel Jacquet, Marco Ferrari, Olivier Dupuis, Michael Chidester, Kendra Brown, Filipe Martins, Macieje Talaga, Xavier Baecke and Hélène Leblanc:

https://youtu.be/SulqpZwCHnQ

Including - presentations of the main European fencing treatise collections by their owners or curators, cross-cultural and translinguistic processes in HEMA, the roots of dressage in Roßfechten sources, and a new proposition on the dating of the Pol Hausbuch and the tradition of Liechtenauer, among many other things.

Multilingual and Intercultural interactions and excanges in the ancient fencing books

04/12/2022

Right now, IFHEMA and Acta Periodica Duellatorum workgroup at Gairethinx - Centro Studi Marziali e Sportivi - you can follow us live:

03/12/2022

Conferencing at Gotti's Martial Arts Museum - Daniel Jaquet asks the panelists An Smets, Wiebe Mokken, Manuel ValleOrtiz and Roberto Gotti .

03/12/2022

Just arrived at Brescia part of our team - Manuel Valle Ortiz and Diniz Cabreira.

We have projects to discuss with at least two publications and four different projects. Plus Manuel will take part in Saturday's conferences ("Crossing Swords, Crossing Boundaries — multilingual and intercultural interactions and exchanges in the Fechtbuch Corpus"), plus we'll be conversing with the IFHEMA people as members of Galician groups. Busy days ahead!

25/11/2022

Well -- we've done it!

It is nothing short of a heroic achievement, but here you have it: an english-language translation of, arguably, the central text of Verdadeira Destreza.

Nothing less than Luis Pacheco de Narváez's «One Hundred Conclussions, or ways to know the Destreza of weapons, founded on science».

This is an English translation of the «Berlin Manuscript», Ms. Phil. 1941, containing the «Cien Conclusiones» («One Hundred Conclusions») and the «Dieciocho Contradicciones» («Eighteen Oppositions») by Luis Pacheco de Narváez, as well as various other texts and images. The translation was carried out by Jan Schäfer and Manuel Valle Ortiz, and supervised by Lois Spangler.

The manuscript from which it comes was considered lost since the late 19th century, until it re-appeared in the second half of the last century in Kristeller’s 1963 catalog in a generic form, without being originally linked with the lost title. Now we can verify that it is, in fact, a handwritten and illustrated version of this classic text of Verdadeira Destreza Pachequista.

It is a text very close to that of the printed edition, perhaps derived from it. It contains, as particular content, technical counters to the «vulgar techniques» described in the «Dieciocho Contradicciones».

In addition to the «Conclusiones» and the «Contradicciones», the book includes a section describing the techniques typical of Verdadeira Destreza, a series of definitions in the form of a question-answer dialogue, and an explanation with illustrations of steps, the lines of the body, the right angle, the «medio proporcionado», the ex*****on of the «atajo» and the movement of conclusion.

For the first time in the English language, this carefuly edited work is a fundamental text, for those who already know Verdadeira Destreza as well as for those who are starting to study it.

Grab your copy here:

http://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/the-one-hundred-conclusions/

But wait! There is more!

You can't be a good HEMA scholar if you don't study the actual sources, in the original language. You knew that, right?

If this snobbish gilt-trippy strategy worked on you, then buy *both* the english version and our critical edition of the original spanish text with 50% discout in this pack:

http://ageaeditora.com/livros/the-one-hundred-conclusions-pack-2x/

Twice as much Pacheco! Who can say no?

22/11/2022

A couple of years ago our head researcher, Manuel ValleOrtiz, was invited to lecture on Iberian fencing systems at the conference «Sword Culture Across the Eurasian Continent» organized by Hing Chao and Daniel Jaquet, in Hong Kong.

There, he introduced the context and concepts of Destreza, by way of presenting the Ferrara Manuscript, a relatively obscure source currently belonging to Roberto Gotti, which combines elements of both Vulgar and Common Destreza.

Now, the minutes of those conferences have been gathered in the book «Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia», edited by Hing Chao, Daniel Jaquet and Loretta Kim, and freely available through OpenAccess.

Check Manuel's contextualization and analysis of the Ferrara Manuscript here:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-2037-0_10

22/08/2022

Work in progress.

30/07/2022

This is a book we have been wanting to publish for a while -- Pablo Moya Montes' in-depth examination of the information we have about the civil and military application of modern era montantes, but also the earlier, late-medieval longswords, called in the peninsula «two-handed swords».

A thoroughly annotated, 200 page long essay, backed by 25 pages (!) of bibliographic references, this is a must-have for anyone interested in the usage and development of the larger swords in Iberian lands.

Get your copy at:

http://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/la-espada-de-dos-manos-y-el-montante/

Following, the book's index (in Spanish, as its contents):

Parte 1: La Espada de dos Manos
Introducción
El contexto europeo e ibérico de la espada de dos manos
La esgrima en la baja edad media ibérica
Los esgrimidores y la espada de dos manos
Tratadistas y escritos sobre la esgrima con espada de dos manos
La espada de dos manos y los gremios de espaderos
La espada de dos manos en los juegos caballerescos y los desafíos
La espada de dos manos en la guerra
La evolución de la espada de dos manos al montante
Conclusiones
Parte 2: El Montante
Introducción
Los orígenes del montante
Inicio del uso del montante en los territorios ibéricos
El montante en la esgrima ibérica
Tratados y escritos de la esgrima con montante
El montante en la legislación y el ámbito civil
Espaderos y montantes
Santos, bailes y montantes de fuego
El montante en el arte de la guerra
El montante en el campo de batalla
El montante en la guerra de asedio y los combates urbanos
El montante en la guerra naval
El ocaso del montante
Conclusiones
Referencias bibliográficas

02/04/2022

As you know, this year we have published a second edition of Godinho's «Arte de Esgrima» adaptation to modern spanish.

The book is not only a set of corrections — it also includes some improvements in the paratexts. However, on behalf of all the people who bought the first edition we have published a list of the relevant changes in the main text:

http://ageaeditora.com/en/erratas-na-primeira-edicao-espanhola-da-arte-de-esgrima-de-godinho/

If you want to buy your own copy of the second edition, find it here:

http://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/arte-de-esgrima/

And remember that there is an alternate interpretation of the text in modern portuguese that you can buy here:

http://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/arte-de-esgrima-pt/
..or you can buy both copies with a 25% discount:

http://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/arte-de-esgrima-pack/

We recently published a second edition in modern Spanish of Arte de Esgrima by Domingo Luis Godinho (which, together with the edition in modern Portuguese that preceded it, forms a pair of readings on the same work that can be purchased and enjoyed together. The second edition of the work is acco

31/03/2022

Sooo... at last!
With a couple of months delay (and we apologize for that, but this time we have good excuses that we are sure you'll all have figured out: worldwide shortages, paper supply issues, etc) we bring to you the second edition of the spanish version of Domingo Luis Godinho's magnum opus, «Arte de Esgrima».

A must have if you study Iberian martial arts, because it is the only extant source on «destreza comum» or «destreza vulgar», as the practitioners of «verdadeira destreza» would call it.

Get your copy in modernied spanish here, painfully but lovingly worked out by Manuel ValleOrtiz & Tim Rivera, with the help of Jaime Girona, Steve Hick and Eric Myers. Quite an ensemble!

http://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/arte-de-esgrima/

Remember that there is also a modernised portuguese adaptation, this time by the hand of Filipe Martins, aided by Luis França.

http://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/arte-de-esgrima-pt/

Or... you know: you can buy both! It's cheaper (than buying them separate)!

http://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/arte-de-esgrima-pack/

24/03/2022

Another copy of Thomas Luiz's «Lições da Espada Preta» finds a new home — this time with the good people of HEMA - Societas Milites Getae. Enjoy!

And if you want yours — it's one of the few books we have translated into english (yet)!

http://ageaeditora.com/en/livros/licoes-da-espada-preta-2ed/

17/03/2022

Today we are dispatching this full set of Acta Periodica Duellatorum issues to the Royal Armouries , the library of which will be a bit more awesome after they arrive. Thanks for the purchase!

And you — what are you waiting? Get your APD copies here:

http://ageaeditora.com/en/product-category/apd/

09/02/2022

Gotta catch'em a—!
You must collect every issue!

The brave folks at Sacauntos Cooperativa Gráfica have managed to overcome the current paper supply issues that seem to be plaguing the EU (the world?) and a myriad other obstacles, and thanks to them we have finally the *full* Acta Periodica Duellatorum collection in stock at our online shop for you to purchase — all with the updated cover design, too!

http://ageaeditora.com/en/product-category/apd/

Remember that APD is and will always be available freely online at https://bop.unibe.ch/apd , but if you are an old-school paper-lover like we are, and if you missed previous issues, this is your chance to complete your collection.

Grab them while they last!

06/01/2022

And three!

We are pleased to announce that the first 200 copies of Diniz Cabreira's translation of GNM HS 3227a (also known as pseudo-Döbringer) have been dispatched. So we ordered a third run at Sacauntos Cooperativa Gráfica, which has just gotten out of the press. This time in red and grey, to differentiate it from the initial set of 100 (with light brown covers) and the second one (in black and gold).

http://ageaeditora.com/livros/3227a/

Just as a quick summary — this is a liberal translation into galician/portuguese of this reference source text for the tradition of Johannes Liechtenauer, as studied at Arte do Combate. It will be useful to any lusophone Kunst des Fechtens student, or to anyone who wants to enjoy its svelte physicality: it is a beautiful book.

24/12/2021

Tomorrow, December 25th, we celebrate the birthday of Isaac Newton, a symbol of science and that the universe is fascinating and can be understood through reason. And, in proper festive spirit, we have a present for you:

Domingo Luis Godinho's «Arte de Esgrima» is back in stock!

This has been one of our more requested reprints, and it was frustrating having to say no to all the requests we got. The first edition, awesome as it was, had some areas where it could be improved, and we have been hard at it — with help.

As of right now, a modern and proper Portuguese language edition of the book is available, normalized and adapted by Filipe Martins with the help of Luis França, both from the Academia de Esgrima Histórica. This has been a huge amount of work carried by these two heroes, and it will make for a much clearer reading of the source material, in the mother language of the author. Grab your copy here:

http://ageaeditora.com/livros/arte-de-esgrima-pt/

But wait, there's more!

A revised edition of the Spanish adaptation of the source text is also in the works. We expect it to be available in about a month or two. Obviously, each language has intrinsic interest for its native speakers, but those who — like us — have the fortune of being fluent in both, will find that comparing these two readings will shine even more light upon Godinho's rather obscure original mélange.

If that is your thing, buy your revised Godinho editions with a 25% discount through this link (be aware the pair will only be shipped once the Spanish version is ready, though):

http://ageaeditora.com/livros/arte-de-esgrima-pack/

(Clarification: there will be the opportunity to buy only the Spanish version, if you so wish, when that one comes out, in about a couple of months.)

And now, go celebrate throwing sand into your friend's eyes!

18/12/2021

News, more news!
It seems that, after the long hiatus the Plague imposed, we are finally getting out of press many projects we had stuck — you know, just in time for the end of year presents. ;)

This time, we are bringing you a long due title: Manuel Campo's «Manual de Entrenamiento de Mano y Media de Fiore dei Liberi», in spanish for the time being, although an english version is in the horizon — kindly harass the author so it gets done before the next horseman of the Apocalypse strikes.

From the webshop's excerpt:

Careful presentation of the art of the sword by master Fiore developed by Manuel Campo, from the Asociación Lucense de Esgrima Antiga. In the book you will find, in addition to the theoretical apparatus necessary to contextualize Art and this interpretation, a step-by-step journey through the techniques of Fior di Batagglia, explained in modern and easy-to-understand terms and accompanied by numerous photographs, with an informal and often humorous tone — an approach that justly earns the subtitle of «Fiore for Dummies».

Should you fancy a copy (and you should), here is the link to buy it:

ageaeditora.com/es/livros/mano-y-media-de-fiore-dei-liberi/

02/12/2021

Starting now, you can buy the latest Acta Periodica Duellatorum issue ( #9/1, 2021) in our online shop!

This is the first step in a cooperation agreement between APD and AGEA Editora. While the digital journal will remain downloadable freely via OpenAccess and Bern Publishing, we are lending our editorial and distribution expertise to make the physical copies printed by Sacauntos Cooperativa Gráfica available worldwide.

As always, remember that all profits go towards furthering HEMA studies and publication, and to support relevant projects for our community.

Read more and buy your copy here:
http://ageaeditora.com/en/acordo-de-colaboracao-com-acta-periodica-duellatorum/

14/11/2021

First post-Plague physical meeting - not everyone, but most - plotting world domination. Or world publishing. You decide.

- Featuring our director Manuel Valle Ortiz presiding over Ton Puey from Academia da Espada , Diego Eguileta from Asociación Ourensá de Esgrima Antiga & Diniz Cabreira from Arte do Combate .