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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduction
  • SECTION I: EQUIPMENT CONTSTRUCTION
    • Chapter 1. Shields
    • Chapter 2. Padding and Flexible Armor
    • Chapter 3. Plate Armor and Helms
    • Chapter 4. Weapons
  • SECTION II: WEAPON, EQUIPMENT, AND OTHER STANDARDS
    • Chapter 5. Weapon Inspection and Stardards of the Kingdoms
    • Chapter 6. Shield and Armor Inspection and Standards of the Kingdoms
    • Chapter 7. Authorization for the Lists and Other Standards
  • SECTION III: FIELD BEHAVIOR; THE RULES OF THE LISTS AND CONVENTIONS OF COMBAT
    • Chapter 8. The Marshal's Office and Enforcing the Rules
    • Chapter 9. The Rules of the Lists, and Their Interpretations in the Kingdoms
    • Chapter 10. Conventions of Combat of the Kingdoms
    • Chapter 11. Field Etiquette
    • Chapter 12. Melees and Wars
    • Chapter 13. Fencing Rules
    • Chapter 14. The Office of the Lists
  • SECTION IV: A PRIMER ON TOURNEY FIGHTING
    • Chapter 15. The Basics
    • Chapter 16. Beginning to Fight
    • Chapter 17. Advanced Techniques
    • Chapter 18. Non-standard Situations, Other Weapons, Melees, and Training Techniques
  • SECTION V: APPENDICES AND SUPPLEMENTS
    • Appendix A. Hints on Construction Techniques, and Supplements to Section I
    • Appendix B. Bibliography of Source Documents
    • Appendix C. How to Stage an SCA Fighting Demonstration
    • Appendix D. On the Physics of Weapon Blows and Armor Protection
    • Appendix E. The SCA Soldier in War
    • Appendix F. Field First Aid
    • Appendix G. Criteria for Knighthood
    • Appendix H. SCA Tournament Dying

Title: The Fighter's Handbook, revised edition
Author/Designer: Sir Kevin Perigrynne, Earl of Anatum(aka Phillip McDown)
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1978(1st ed);1980(2nd ed)
Publisher: Society for Creative Anachronisms, Inc.
Page Count: 150
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: None

SUMMARY- Pages 13-18 covers chain mail armor in this book written for the use of a reenactment group called the Society for Creative Anachronisms. Yes, I was happily a member for a number of years. I was a fighter and an active member of the armorer's guild. I still have the armor I built for myself except for the articulated steel plate I made to cover my arms - that got borrowed for a war I couldn't go to and never made it back to me. This is where I learned to make chainmail. The book has useful and practical information in it, and probably has gotten better over the years as it continued to get revised.

They have a website: https://www.sca.org/