The television series Queen of Swords features the use of the rapier in the mysterious circle, Destreza style favoured by the first swordmaster of the series Anthony De Longis who studied the Spanish sword fighting technique and wanted a unique style for the heroine.
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Joseph Swetnam, The Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Science of Defence (1617)
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A painting by Joseph Nash, now in the National Fencing Museum, depicts 17th-century rapier practice at Bramshill House, with a number of upper-class men, women and children as spectators.
The company enjoyed some success, including development of the Rapier, Sea Skua and Sea Wolf missiles.
The roster of Fabris’ notable students included Prince-Archbishop John Frederick of Bremen and Christian IV, King of Denmark, under whose patronage he published his exceptional rapier-fencing manual Lo Schermo, overo Scienza d’Arme (“on fencing, or martial knowledge”).
In the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), rapier combat makes use of various forms of off-hand device, including parrying daggers, batons, cloaks, and a second sword, which in fencing is termed "case of rapier".
Team Sovereign did not enter a Rapier 6 in the FIA Sportscar Championship again until the fifth round of the 2003 season, which was the 2 Hours 30 Minutes of Donington Park; Flux returned to the team, and he helped Millard to take fifth overall, and third in the SR2 category.
Ridolfo Capoferro or Capo Ferro of Cagli was a fencing master in the city of Siena best known for his rapier fencing manual published in 1610.
That unnameable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World's End, the opening lines of "Kubla Khan", the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves.
Rapier bodies were built by Pressed Steel, shipped to Thrupp & Maberly in north London where they were painted and trimmed, then shipped again to the Rootes assembly plant at Ryton-on-Dunsmore near Coventry where the engines, transmission and running gear were fitted.
Victorian-era authors of historical romances such as Walter Scott and Alexandre Dumas saw the art of rapier fencing as the origin of contemporary thrust-oriented small-sword fencing, and dismissed the earlier swords as heavy and fencing systems of earlier periods as inferior, slower and relying on cleaving blows and brute strength.