Sydney Anglo

Sydney Anglo, FBA, FSA, FRHistS, FLSW (1934–2025), was a British historian, academic, and scholar.

Anglo began his studies at the Warburg Institute in 1954 and completed his PhD under Frances Yates, later returning as a senior fellow from 1970 to 1971. After teaching at the University of Reading from 1958-61, he moved to the University of Swansea in 1961, where he would remain for most of his career. In 1981, he was appointed Professor of the History of Ideas, a position he held until 1986 when he was appointed Research Professor. Concurrently, he held the position of Chairman of the Society for Renaissance Studies from 1986 to 1989. In 1999, he was appointed as Professor Emeritus at Swansea University. Anglo was a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He was awarded the Arms and Armour Society Medal in 2002, and in 2005, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Anglo published widely on Machiavelli, court culture, and historical European martial arts, and his 2000 monograph The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe was the first comprehensive work in English on the subject and was an important step in establishing historical martial arts as a credible subject for academic research.

Wiktenauer contributions

Translations

The following articles include translations by Sydney Anglo.

• Le Jeu de la Hache (MS Français 1996)

HEMA publications

Sydney Anglo has produced or contributed to the following books and journal articles.

Author

• Anglo, Sydney (1989). "The Man who Taught Leonardo Darts: Pietro Monte and His 'Lost' Fencing Book." The Antiquaries Journal 69(2): 261-278. doi:10.1017/S0003581500150000.
• Anglo, Sydney (1991). "Le Jeu de la Hache. A Fifteenth-Century Treatise on the Technique of Chivalric Axe Combat." Archaeologia 109: 113-128. doi:10.1017/S0261340900014053.
• Anglo, Sydney (1994). "Sixteenth-century Italian drawings in Federico Ghisliero's Regole di molti cavagliereschi essercitii." Apollo 140(393): 29-36.
• Anglo, Sydney (2000). The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08352-1.
• Anglo, Sydney (2008). "Le Jeu de la Hache: A 15th-Century Treatise." Masters of Medieval and Renaissance Martial Arts: 143-172. Ed. by John Clements. Boulder: Paladin Press. ISBN 978-1-58160-668-3.
• Anglo, Sydney (2008). "Fencing or Fighting? George Silver, Cyril Matthey, and the Infantry Sword Exercise of 1895: Rediscovering an Elizabethan Swordsman in Late Victorian England." Masters of Medieval and Renaissance Martial Arts: 375-384. Ed. by John Clements. Boulder: Paladin Press. ISBN 978-1-58160-668-3.
• Anglo, Sydney (2011). L'escrime, la danse et l'art de la guerre. Le livre et la représentation du mouvement. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France. ISBN 978-2-7177-2473-8.
• Anglo, Sydney (2012). "Sword and Pen: Fencing Masters and Artists." The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe 1520-1630: 150-163. Ed. by Tobias Capwell. London: Paul Holberton. ISBN 978-0-900785-43-6.