Le Jeu de la Hache

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The Le Jeu de la Hache is a rare Burgundian work on the Medieval poleaxe or the Art of Axeplay. It covers the deadly and effective style of knightly polaxe fighting for foot combat and tournament, this text describes a sophisticated and considerably developed method of using a powerful weapon that found its place combating plate armor in the 1400's and 1500’s. Part axe, part spear, part war-hammer, and part short-staff, the versatile poleaxe was used something like a mace and a sword as well as a pole-arm. It was ideally suited to facing heavy armor in single combat or battlefield. Able to smash, stab, hook, block, trap, and soem even cut, it was formidable. While accounts of knightly duels with the weapon rarely resulted in death, in war against lesser armored opponents it could be devastating.