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Liechtenauer Composite The Recital of the Chivalric Art of Fencing of the Grand Master Johannes Liechtenauer With Commentary and Illustrations by Master Sigmund ain Ringeck, Master Peter von Danzig, Master Paulus Kal, and Other Inheritors of His Tradition Including translations by Michael Chidester • Mike Rasmusson • David Rawlings • Thomas Stoeppler Christian Henry Tobler • Christian Trosclair • Cory Winslow Based on transcriptions by Dierk Hagedorn Edited by Michael Chidester www.wiktenauer.com Preface, introduction, and Peter von Danzig translation © 2010-16 by Michael Chidester Recital by Christian Henry Tobler ©2010 by Freelance Academy Press, Inc. [from In Saint George’s Name: An Anthology of Medieval German Fighting Arts] Pseudo-Peter von Danzig long sword translation © 2014-16 by Cory Winslow Sigmund ain Ringeck and additional long sword translation © 2015-16 by Christian Trosclair Pseudo-Hans Döbringer translation © 2005-13 by Thomas Stoeppler Pseudo-Peter von Danzig short sword translation © 2004 by Mike Rasmusson Sigmund Shining ain Ringeck short sword translation © 2010 by David Rawlings Transcriptions © 2006-2016 by Dierk Hagedorn Introduction is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon these works even for commercial purposes, as long as you credit the authors and license your new creations under identical terms. The complete license can be found at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Pseudo-Peter von Danzig, Sigmund ain Ringeck, and Peter von Danzig translations are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon these works non-commercially, as long as you credit the authors and license your new creations under identical terms. The complete license can be found at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ All rights for all other content reserved. No part of these works may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the authors, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. Version 2.2, 2016 Published by Wiktenauer, the free library of Historical European Martial Arts books and manuscripts A project of the 501(c)(3) H.E.M.A Alliance www.wiktenauer.com Contents Editor’s Preface ..................................................................................................................................................... iii What’s in This Book ..................................................................................................................................... vi Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................. 1 Recital on the Chivalric Art of Fencing............................................................................................................ 9 Preface to the Commentaries on the Recital ................................................................................................. 19 Commentary on the Recital of the Long Sword .......................................................................................... 27 The wrath-hew with its plays .................................................................................................................... 58 The crooked-hew with its plays ................................................................................................................ 78 The thwart-hew with its plays ................................................................................................................... 91 The squint-hew with its plays ................................................................................................................. 116 The parting-hew with its plays ............................................................................................................... 124 The four leaguers ........................................................................................................................................ 127 The four preemptings ................................................................................................................................ 132 The traveling-after ..................................................................................................................................... 139 The running-over........................................................................................................................................ 151 The setting-aside ......................................................................................................................................... 153 The changing-through .............................................................................................................................. 157 The jerking-back ......................................................................................................................................... 160 The running-through ................................................................................................................................. 163 The slicing-away ......................................................................................................................................... 174 Th hand-pressing ........................................................................................................................................ 178 The two hangings ....................................................................................................................................... 181 The conclusion of the Recital .................................................................................................................. 192 Commentary on the Recital of the Short Sword ....................................................................................... 202 Appendix A: Teachings of the Other Masters ........................................................................................... 303 Appendix B: Fencing from the Sweeps ....................................................................................................... 309 Appendix C: Omitted transcriptions ............................................................................................................ 313 Editor’s Preface Preface — v This book is the culmination of a project begun over six years Liechtenauer and Fiore study guides I had once created—texts ago, in mid-2009, before Wiktenauer was even a twinkle in Ben that still, five years later, had not been reproduced by any Michels’ eye. I was running a club at the time, the former authors in the field—and I thought they might be the incentive ARMA Provo study group which I and my fellow senior people needed. instructor Eli Combs rechristened True Edge Academy. As I We all know how this story ends, of course: you, my revised and expanded our curriculum, I began taking a serious Wiktenauer donors, scoffed at our goals and with look at the Liechtenauer sources for the first time; I had contemptuous ease broke them over your collective knee. previously been proficient in the ARMA method, but primarily When the dust settled, the total stood at $22 710 (and over two focused on Fiore de’i Liberi in my elective studies. thousand more been donated in the intervening months). I quickly discovered that the syncretic approach to manual While this meant an enormous amount of work for me—and study used by Fiorists, in which all versions of a technique also for the ever-helpful John Harmston, who was now a five- tend to be examined side by side, was nowhere in evidence in term member of the General Counsel for the Alliance—it also the resources available online or in print—neither English meant the exciting prospect of finally seeing a proper translations that considered more than one version of a treatment, in print, of these books. treatise, nor comparisons of Liechtenauer’s syllabus across In the intervening years, my understanding of the multiple treatises. In fact, at that time I was not even able to Liechtenauer tradition had increased tenfold. Where Hils listed find accurate estimates as to how many manuscripts existed, or fifty-five German fencing manuals, I am now tracking over how many copies of each treatise (it wasn’t until much later ninety. Many scholars have devoted time and effort to that I’d discover that Hans-Peter Hils had done that work in unlocking the history and context of these fencing manuals, the ‘80s, but it had never been translated to English). and many others to interpreting their teachings. And, of So I set about rectifying this, attempting to create the course, the quality of resources that we have access to has resources for my students that I had initially thought to buy. drastically increased. So, rather than printing the existing That was when I began scouring the web, breaking apart study document from five years ago, I exceed my campaign manuscripts and collating transcriptions by Dierk Hagedorn pledge—and perhaps test the patience of my donors—by and others (Dierk hadn’t transcribed nearly so many completely rebuilding this book from the ground up. manuscripts at that time) into my first syncretic tables of In these pages you will
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