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Basket-hilted sword

"Broadsword" redirects here. For other uses, see Broadsword (disambiguation).

A typical schiavona of the late 17th century.
Juxtaposition of an early broadsword with quillons with a 17th-century schiavona, from The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games (1911)
Portrait of Donald McBane, a Scottish fencing master, from Donald McBane's The Expert Swordsman's Companion (1728). This image portrays McBane in the "Inside Guard" with a broadsword, while the table next to him has both broadswords and smallswords. The wall behind him has a targe with flintlock pistols on each side

The basket-hilted sword is a sword type of the early modern era characterised by a basket-shaped guard that protects the hand. The basket hilt is a development of the quillons added to swords' crossguards since the Late Middle Ages. In modern times, this variety of sword is also sometimes referred to as the broadsword.[1][2]

The basket-hilted sword was generally in use as a military sword. A true broadsword possesses a double-edged blade, while similar wide-bladed swords with a single sharpened edge and a thickened back are called backswords. Various forms of basket-hilt were mounted on both broadsword and backsword blades.[3]

One of the weapon types in the modern German dueling sport of Mensur ("academic fencing") is the basket-hilted Korbschläger.[4]

  1. ^ Clements, John (2022). "Broadsword or Broad Sword? Settling the Question of What's in a Name". The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  2. ^ Oakeshott 1980, pp. 156, 173, 175.
  3. ^ Martyn 2004, pp. 6, 29.
  4. ^ see Korbschläger article in German Wikipedia.
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