Freelance Academy Press

Freelance Academy Press
Founded	2010
Founder	Gregory Mele, Tommasso Leoni
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	1760 College Lane South Wheaton, IL 60189
Nonfiction topics	Historical European Martial Arts
Official website	www.freelanceacademypress.com

Freelance Academy Press is a small independent publishing house catering to the Historical European Martial Arts community. Founded in early 2010, it has put out a several of titles by authors including Tom Leoni and Christian Henry Tobler.

Publications

The following is a partial list of the books and journals by Freelance Academy Press, limited to publications containing treatise scans, transcriptions, translations, or peer-reviewed research.

Books

• Swordplay: an anonymous illustrated Dutch treatise for fencing with rapier, sword and polearms from 1595 (2015). Trans. Reinier van Noort. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-29-3.
• Capo Ferro, Ridolfo (2011). Ridolfo Capoferro's The Art and Practice of Fencing: A Practical Translation for the Modern Swordsman. Trans. Tom Leoni. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-0-9825911-9-2.
• Finley, Jessica (2014). Medieval Wrestling: Modern Practice of a 15th-Century Art. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-9374391-1-8.
• Gevaert, Bert (2014). Heinrich von Gunterrodt. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press.
• Gevaert, Bert (2020). The True Principles of Combat: An underestimated martial arts treatise from the 16th century. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-06-4.
• Giganti, Nicoletto (2010). Venetian Rapier: The School, or Salle. Nicoletto Giganti's 1606 Rapier Fencing Curriculum. Trans. Tom Leoni. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-0-9825911-2-3.
• Hagedorn, Dierk; Christian Henry Tobler (2021). The Peter von Danzig Fight Book. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-53-8.
• Leoni, Tom; Gregory Mele (2017). Flowers of Battle, Volume 1: Historical Overview and the Getty Manuscript. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-18-7.
• Liberi, Fiore de'i (2012). Fiore de' Liberi's Fior di Battaglia. Trans. Tom Leoni. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press.
• Mair, Paulus Hector (2024). Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Vol. 1: Longsword. Trans. Jeff Tsay. Ed. Jeffrey L. Forgeng. Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-59-0.
• Manciolino, Antonio (2010). The Complete Renaissance Swordsman: Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova (1531). Trans. Tom Leoni. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-0-9825911-3-0.
• Mondschein, Ken; Gregory Mele (2018). Flowers of Battle, Volume 3: Florius de Arte Luctandi. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-19-4.
• Rivera, Tim (2016). Iberian Swordplay: Domingo Luis Godinho's Art of Fencing (1599). Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-33-0.
• Tobler, Christian Henry (2010). Messer Fighting from the Glasgow Fechtbuch. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press.
• Tobler, Christian Henry (2010). In Saint George's Name: An Anthology of Medieval German Fighting Arts. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-0-9825911-1-6.
• Tobler, Christian Henry (2011). Captain of the Guild: Master Peter Falkner's Art of Knightly Defense. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-09-5.
• Tobler, Christian Henry (2022). Lance, Spear, Sword, & Messer: A German Medieval Martial Arts Miscellany. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-64-4.

Articles

• Alderson, Keith (2010). "On the Art of Reading: An Introduction to Using the Medieval German 'Fightbooks'." In the Service of Mars: Proceedings from the Western Martial Arts Workshop, 1999-2009: 251-286. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-0-9825911-5-4.
• Alderson, Keith (2014). "Arts and Crafts of War: die Kunst des Schwerts in its Manuscript Context." Can These Bones Come to Life? Insights from Reconstruction, Reenactment, and Re-creation 1: 24-29. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-13-2.
• Eads, Valerie; Rebecca L. R. Garber (2014). "Amazon, Allegory, Swordswoman, Saint? The Walpurgis Images in Royal Armouries MS I.33." Can These Bones Come to Life? Insights from Reconstruction, Reenactment, and Re-creation 1: 5-23. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-13-2.
• Hayes, Sean (2014). "Memory and Performance: Visual and Rhetorical Strategies of Il Fior di Battaglia." Can These Bones Come to Life? Insights from Reconstruction, Reenactment, and Re-creation 1: 62-29. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-13-2.