The term "hand-and-a-half sword" is modern (late 19th century). the Bidenhänder sword favoured by the Landsknechte of 16th-century Germany.the Scottish late medieval claymore (not to be confused with the basket-hilted claymore of the 18th century).the European longsword, popular in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance.The term two-handed sword, used as a general term, may refer to any large sword designed to be used primarily with two hands: Warring States era jian (double edged sword) Handedness Elizabethans used descriptive terms such as "short", "bastard", and "long" which emphasized the length of the blade, and "two-handed" for any sword that could be wielded by two hands. The most well-known systematic typology of blade types of the European medieval sword is the Oakeshott typology, although this is also a modern classification and not a medieval one.
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All these newly introduced or redefined terms add to the confusion of the matter. Furthermore, there is a deprecation of the term "broadsword" by these associations. Historical European Martial Arts associations have turned the term spada da lato into "side-sword". Terminology was further complicated by terms introduced or misinterpreted in the 19th century by antiquarians and in 20th century pop culture, and by the addition of new terms such as "great sword", " Zweihänder" (instead of Beidhänder), and "cut-and-thrust sword".
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Others are modern or early modern terms used by antiquarians, curators, and modern-day sword enthusiasts for historical swords. Some of these terms originate contemporaneously with the weapons which they describe.