text: are there any martial arts created by knights and or from ancient europe? we all know about asian ancient martial arts. but what about europe in the mediaval age...do knights and other warriors have created or documented fighting moves or their very own martial arts discipline? sort of. european culture is quite a bit different than asian culture, so they aren't even remotely similar, but...  europan fencing, boxing, and wrestling are all forms of martial arts. martial = fighting and art = something stylized and learned.  and in scottland, the scottish highland dancing was originally developed for the scottish wariors to improve balance and coordination.  and i've seen a few books from europe on sword fighting written for the slightly richer than average citezen. it was pretty stylized, and they remind me a lot of the books i've read on kung fu in modern days.