I'm currently reading Sigmund Ringneck's The Knightly Art of the Longsword. It's a translation of a 15th century german manuscript or perhaps manual would be a better word in this case for fighting with the longsword and how they actually did it in those days. It is a good translation and profusely illustrated. I bought it as research since most of my writing is set in a pseudo medieval culture/world with a mix of strange technologies in it. It's the David Lindholm translation.

A very interesting book. Apparently fighting wasn't so much of a hack and slash thing back then as has been previously supposed. More and more of these books are surfacing with research and I want to collect every single one of them that I can get my hands on.

I would like for my fight scenes to have as much sense of authenticity as possible. Since my sword and sorcery stories have such a mix of horror and technology, it's important to know as much as I can discover about a variety of things, even how watermills work. I have always enjoyed research and I am definitely enjoying this one.