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Critical Review !1/!76
Guy Windsor Critical Review !1/!76 Recreating Medieval and Renaissance European combat systems: A Critical Review of Veni Vadi Vici, Mastering the Art of Arms vol 1: The Medieval Dagger, and The Duel- list’s Companion, Submitted for examination for the degree of PhD by Publication. Guy Windsor Ipswich, July 2017 !1 Guy Windsor Critical Review !2/!76 Table of Contents Introduction 3 The Primary Sources for the Submitted Works 20 Methodology 37 Results: The Submitted Works 42 Conclusion 60 Works Cited 69 !2 Guy Windsor Critical Review !3/!76 Introduction The aims of this research on historical methods of combat are threefold: historical knowl- edge for its own sake, the reconstruction of these lost combat arts, and the development of pedagogical methods by which these arts can be taught. The objectives are to develop and present working interpretations of three particular sources, Fiore dei Liberi’s Il Fior di Battaglia (1410) Philippo Vadi’s De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi (ca 1480) and Ridolfo Capo- ferro’s Gran Simulacro (1610). By “working interpretations” I mean a clear and reasonably complete training method for acquiring the necessary skills to execute these styles of swordsmanship in practice: so a technical, tactical, and pedagogical method for each style. The methodology includes transcription and translation (where necessary), close reading, tropological analysis, practical experiment, technical practice, and presentation of findings. The results include but are not limited to the three publications submitted for examination, which are: Veni Vadi Vici, published in 2012, which is a transcription, translation and commentary on De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi: this has been extensively corrected and updated, and re- submitted for a second examination after which it will be published. -
The Art of Sword Combat: a 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship Pdf, Epub, Ebook
THE ART OF SWORD COMBAT: A 1568 GERMAN TREATISE ON SWORDMANSHIP PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Joachim Meyer | 144 pages | 18 Aug 2016 | Pen & Sword Books Ltd | 9781473876750 | English | Barnsley, United Kingdom The Art of Sword Combat: A 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship PDF Book This handsome volume is a vital historical record. Andrew Shultz rated it liked it Jun 29, The American Civil War. The Way of the Living Sword is the final installment in D. These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. Forgotten password Please enter your email address below and we'll send you a link to reset your password. It went on to become a key weapon on the battlefields of late medieval Europe, creating a new system of sword fighting. These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our websites but are non- essential to their use. How can the sweaty and the brutal be exquisitely beautiful? In this second reissue of a classic work, Chivalry Bookshelf offers students of martial arts, of martial culture during the middle ages, fencing historians, reenactors and students of medieval history. The text covers combat with the long sword hand-and-a-half sword , dusack a one-handed practice weapon comparable to a saber , and rapier. Please sign in to write a review. Jorge G. Nynros Bearer of the Curse marked it as to-read May 13, Would you like to proceed to the App store to download the Waterstones App? With full-color pages, this sword book illustrates in meticulous detail how modern craftsmen use traditional methods to prepare their steel, forge the sword and create the unique hardened edge. -
By Peter Dell ' O Rto and S Ean Punch
BY P ETER D ELL’ORTO AND S EAN P UNCH Written by PETER DELL’ORTO and SEAN PUNCH Additional Material by VOLKER BACH and C.J. CARELLA Edited by SEAN PUNCH Cover Art by BOB STEVLIC Illustrated by ABRAR AJMAL and BOB STEVLIC ISBN 978-1-55634-762-7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 STEVE JACKSON GAMES Committed Attack . 99 Defensive Attack. 100 Evaluate . 100 Feint . 100 ONTENTS Ready . 101 C Who Draws First?. 103 Move . 105 Realism Level . 29 INTRODUCTION . 4 Move and Attack . 107 Beginning Students as PCs. 30 Publication History . 4 Wait . 108 About the Authors . 4 CHARACTER TEMPLATES . 31 ADDITIONAL COMBAT OPTIONS . 109 Del Duque (350 points) . 33 Melee Attack Options . 109 1. HISTORY . 5 Frauds . 35 A Matter of Inches . 110 Adrian Froste (200 points) . 37 TIMELINE . 6 Untrained Fighters . 113 Kai Lian (250 points) . 39 ASIA . 8 Close-Combat Options. 114 China . 8 ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES, Teeth. 115 Xia . 8 AND SKILLS . 42 Grab and Smash! . 118 Monks and Martial Arts . 9 Advantages . 42 Ranged Attack Options . 119 India . 10 Desirable Advantages . 43 Rapid Fire with Thrown Weapons. 120 Northern vs. Southern Kung Fu . 10 Chi Powers for Martial Artists . 46 Active Defense Options . 121 Religion, Philosophy, and Fists . 11 Perks . 49 Harsh Realism for Indonesian Archipelago. 12 Disadvantages. 53 Unarmed Fighters . 124 Japan . 12 Common Disadvantages. 53 CINEMATIC COMBAT . 125 Ryu . 12 Skills . 54 Multiple Attacks . 126 Ninja: Legend vs. History . 13 Combat Skills . 55 Chambara Fighting . 128 Korea. 14 Wildcard Skills for Styles . 60 Mind Games . 130 Other Nations. -
The Academy of the Sword: Illustrated Fencing Books 1500
er'he .9fcademy of the Sword ILLUSTRATED FENCING BOOKS 1500-1800 3· I ~ Or~en.Hlcht: parade vonficu.n'de unten THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART efhe !Academy #the Sword ILLUSTRATED FENCING BOOKS 1500-1800 Donald]. LaRocca THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibi Black-and-white photography by Susanne Cardone tion "The Academy of the Sword: Illustrated Fencing and Paul Lachenauer of The Photograph Studio, Books, 1500-1800," held at The Metropolitan Museum of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art, New York, fromJune 9, 1998, to fall of 1999. Printed and bound by Malloy Lithographing, Inc., This publication is made possible byJoseph A. Suarez, Esq., Ann Arbor, Michigan The Armor and Arms Club of New York, and the Grancsay Fund. Cover illustration: Anthon Friedrich Kahn, Anfangsgriinde der Fechtkunst ... (see page 18) Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data John P. O'Neill, Editor in Chief LaRocca, Donald]. Barbara Cavaliere, Editor The academy of the sword: illustrated fencing Sean Flaherty, Production books 1500-1800 / Donald]. LaRocca. Design by Robert Weisberg p. cm. Exhibition heldJune 1998 through the fall of 1999 Copyright © 1998 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York ISBN 0-87099-894-3 (pbk.) 1. Fencing in art-Exhibitions. 2. Fencing Second printing 1999 Textbooks-Illustrations-Exhibitions. 3. Illustrated books-New York (State)-New York-Exhibitions. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be 4. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y:). -
A Kampfschwert from the 15Th Century –
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, Scholarly section 7 DOI 10.1515/apd-2015-0007 A Kampfschwert from the 15th century – a reinterpretation of the so called 'Teutonic estoc' from the Princes Czartoryski Collection in Cracow, Poland Maciej Talaga, ARMA-PL Abstract – The paper aims at reinterpreting the so called ‘Teutonic estoc’ (inventory number: MNK XIV-49) from the Czartoryski Princes Collection, Cracow, Poland. Due to the weapon’s unusual construction it has been necessary to draw up precise documentation – written, drawn and photographic. It has been supplemented with research in historical sources and scholarly literature on the subject. The results obtained indicate that the researched weapon is not a typical estoc. It seems that it is a specialized anti-armour sword (Kampfschwert in German) designed for fighting against a heavy armoured opponent in judicial combat. If this conclusion were correct, the ‘Teutonic estoc’ from Cracow would be the only known artefact of this kind to have survived from the Middle Ages. In order to falsify this hypothesis the artefact’s authenticity has been examined. An analysis of Royal Inventory records spanning from the year 1475 to 1792 and younger remarks about the researched weapon in press, private letters and scholarly literature has been conducted and briefly reported hereby. Its results seem to indicate that it is not a hoax. I. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my deep gratitude to my tutors in the subject of both archaeology and common sense – M.A. Martyna Milewska and prof. Jerzy Kruppé from the University of Warsaw – without the help and encouragement of whom I would have never dared to give this paper a try. -
Body Techniques of Combat: the Depiction of a Personal Fighting System in the Fight Books of Hans Talhofer (1443-1467 CE)
Body Techniques of Combat: The Depiction of a Personal Fighting System in the Fight Books of Hans Talhofer (1443-1467 CE) ERIC BURKART If we turQWR³ERGLHVLQEDWWOH´LQWKH0iddle Ages, the question how fighters of the past actually used their bodies in combat is a quite obvious one. Unfortunately, it is difficult to answer. Only very few medieval sources document movements in a way that would allow a detailed reconstruction. Additionally, the interpretation of these sources greatly involves the interpUHWHU¶s own perception of her body and movement, a knowledge that is usually subconscious and difficult to communicate to a (reading) scientific community. From the point of view of cultural history, this hermeneutic framework and the resulting communicational gap is crucial to any scientific approach towards PHGLHYDO³WHFKQLTXHVRIWKHERG\´.1 The most promising historical documents concerning body techniques of combat are the late medieval and early modern fight books.2 In this contribution, I shall focus on a series of five 15th century manuscripts ascribed to the fencing master Hans Talhofer. These treatises will serve as a case study to discuss the communication strategies of medieval fight books and the connection between the 1 MAUSS, 1979; MALLINCKRODT, 2008; SPATZ, 2015. 2 LENG, 2008; BOFFA, 2014. 109 Eric Burkart integrated didactic images and the embodied knowledge of their makers.3 Apart from the hermeneutic set up, there is yet another factor that renders a study on body techniques of combat rather difficult. Interpersonal physical violence is a human practice that is documented throughout the history of mankind. Yet, the violent action itself is volatile and only its material traces can be subject to a historical inquiry. -
Duel of Theobald Versus Seitz – Germany, 1370
Duel of Theobald versus Seitz – Germany, 1370 translation & commentary by Jeffrey Hull This particular account of judicial duel (kampf) from Germany of 1370 is found in Volume II Chapter 14 of the fechtbuch (fight-book) De Arte Athletica (aka Liber Artis Athleticae – Cod.icon. 393 – circa 1542) by that citizen of Augsburg and fencer called Paulus Hector Mair. Although his Latin recounting is nearly two centuries after the event, it does read with authority, as Mair was the practically peerless fencing historian of 16th Century Germany (1). A similar account is found in Augsburger Chronik (circa 1457) by Sigismund Meisterlin (2). Mair’s account is highly interesting, not just for its description of martial techniques, but also for its description of legal proceeding and dueling-day ritual. And indeed, all that Mair describes here is readily corroborated by, or does not conflict with, other fight-books. It is one of many accounts from late 14th Century, during the time when the eventual grandmaster of Kunst des Fechtens, Johann Liechtenauer, must have been ascending as a young knight and martial artist. My translation is based upon Josef Würdinger’s summarising German translation of Mair’s original Latin recounting, but with comparison to Mair’s original made to corroborate and clarify certain points. Würdinger’s translation was reprinted recently (2006) by Hans Edelmaier (see Bibliography). Lastly – I have made occasional interpolations and several textual notes, as such seemed needed to make these events more comprehensible to the modern reader. ~ ***** In the course of one of the feuds which Duke Stephan had to endure and counter by arrests in Swabia (3) during the years 1369 and 1370, this did happen: A Swabian noble, Theobald Giß von Gißenberg, accused his peer, Seitz von Altheim, of robbery (4) in presence of the Duke. -
Vnnd Schüß Im Vnder Dem Schwert Den Ort Lang Ein Zů Der Brust”: the Placement and Consequences of Sword-Blows in Sigmund Ringeck’S Fifteenth- Century Fencing Manual
128 Kellett Chapter 5 “…Vnnd schüß im vnder dem schwert den ort lang ein zů der brust”: The Placement and Consequences of Sword-blows in Sigmund Ringeck’s Fifteenth- Century Fencing Manual Rachel E. Kellett The medieval fencing manual is a valuable if little-studied source of informa- tion on the injuries likely to be caused in medieval combat since it provides instruction on techniques to be used with a wide variety of weapons, including the sword, as well as in unarmed combat. The majority of such texts date to the early fifteenth century and later, and (with one exception) the earliest extant fencing manuals of medieval Europe all come from the German-speaking region.1 Of these German manuals, all but one draw directly or indirectly on the fourteenth-century teachings of Johannes Liechtenauer.2 Although no direct written record of Liechtenauer’s fencing system exists, his influence on the development of medieval German fencing cannot be overstated;3 his 1 See: Jeffrey Forgeng and Alex Kiermayer, “‘The Chivalric Art’: German Martial Arts Treatises of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” in The Cutting Edge: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Combat, ed. Barry Molloy (Stroud: Tempus, 2007), 153–67; see in particular 153. The exception is a Middle English manuscript (London, British Museum, Harleian Manuscript 3542, ff. 82– 85), dating to the fifteenth century. 2 No details about Liechtenauer’s life are currently known other than that he was probably active during the fourteenth century. The earliest manuscript containing his teachings, Nuremberg, Germanisches Museum MS 3227a, implies that Liechtenauer was still alive at the time of writing. -
MEIBUKAN MAGAZINE House of the Pure Martial Arts
MEIBUKAN MAGAZINE House Of The Pure Martial Arts European Medieval and Renaissance Martial Arts Courtesy of the Musee du Louvre, Paris. Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople on 12 April 1204 Courtesy of the Musee du Louvre, Paris. Entry Crusaders into Constantinople on 12 THE INTERNATIONAL WEB BASED MARTIAL ARTS January 2006 MAGAZINE AS A PDF DOCUMENT Special Edition no 1 House of the Pure Martial Arts WWW.MEIBUKANMAGAZINE.ORG Special Edition January 2006 MEIBUKAN MAGAZINE House of the Pure Martial Arts SPECIAL EDITION No. 1 JANUARY 2006 HISTORY 2 MISSION STATEMENT A Short Introduction to Historical European Martial Arts Meibukan Magazine is an initiative of founders Lex Opdam and Mark Hemels. Aim of this web based REVIEW 4 magazine is to spread the knowledge and spirit of Renaissance Swordsmanship by John Clements the martial arts. In a non profitable manner Meibukan Magazine draws attention to the historical, spiritual Medieval Swordsmanship by John Clements and technical background of the oriental martial arts. Medieval Combat by Hans Talhoffer Starting point are the teachings of Okinawan karate- do. As ‘House of the Pure Martial Arts’, however, Meibukan Magazine offers a home to the various au- FEATURE 5 thentic martial arts traditions. Renaissance Martial Arts Literature FORMAT FEATURE 8 Meibukan Magazine is published several times a year How to tell if your Fencing is a Martial Art or a Combat Sport in an electronical format with an attractive mix of subjects and styles. Each issue of at least twelve pages is published as pdf-file for easy printing. Published FEATURE 11 editions remain archived on-line. -
The Art of Sword Combat: a 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship Pdf, Epub, Ebook
THE ART OF SWORD COMBAT: A 1568 GERMAN TREATISE ON SWORDMANSHIP PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Joachim Meyer | 144 pages | 18 Aug 2016 | Pen & Sword Books Ltd | 9781473876750 | English | Barnsley, United Kingdom The Art of Sword Combat: A 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship PDF Book Find your next favorite book Become a member today and read free for 30 days Start your free 30 days. The manuscript, produced in Strasbourg around , is illustrated with thirty watercolor images and seven ink diagrams. Return to Book Page. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Open Preview See a Problem? Had Protestant patrons, and organised several 'Fechtbuch' or encounter events, and took a big financial risk printing the book originally, not living to see it a success death probably due to winter travelling. In part, the manuscript represents an early version of his published Art of Combat : the first section, covering techniques for the longsword, overlaps heavily with the material he would eventually publish. The text covers combat with the longsword hand-and-a-half sword , dusack a one-handed practice weapon comparable to a sabre , and rapier. The manuscript's theoretical discussion of guards is one of the most critical passages to understanding this key feature of the historical practice, not just in relation to Meyer but in relation to the medieval combat systems in general. Shaun Davis marked it as to-read Apr 15, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Quite a bit of vivid and efficient prose describing techniques and strategies in bouts. The manuscript, produced in Strassburg around , is illustrated with thirty watercolor images and seven ink diagrams. -
The Art of Combat Joachim Meyer Pdf
The art of combat joachim meyer pdf Continue Among the significant heritage of martial arts texts left behind by martial artists working in medieval German tradition, this book stands out as one of the most remarkable and important, first translated into English by Geoffrey Forgenge. The only major original text in this enclosure to be circulated in print, Meyer's guide is an ambitious comprehensive encyclopedia of traditional German martial arts, covering a range of weapons, and offers a rational introduction to a complex and organic tradition inherited from the Middle Ages. The publisher. Joachim Mayer was born in Basel, Switzerland, around 1537, possibly the son of Jacob Meyer, a clerical, and Anna Freund. He became a Strasbourg burger, marrying a widow in 1560, most likely during his apprenticeship as a cutlery. He made a living as a cutlery and professional fencer until 1570, in which year he published his art of wrestling - a book that made him famous. The making of this book, however, left him in deep debt, and the search for potential buyers led him to leave Strasbourg and work as a weapons master at the court of Duke Schwerin. Unfortunately, he died shortly after his arrival, on 24 February 1571, at the age of only thirty-four, leaving the burden of his debt to his widow and her. Jeffrey L Forgeng is curator of the Worcester Art Museum Higgins Collection, the second largest collection of weapons and armor in America, and teaches as an associate professor of history at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His scientific work specializes in European treatises on the use of weapons and armor. -
Martial Arts of the Middle Age
IQP JLS-0072 Martial Arts of the Middle Age Interactive Qualifying Project Report Submitted to the Faculty of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation by Andrew Aveyard ___________________ Jason Cardwell ___________________ Brad Davison ___________________ Daniel Haggerty ___________________ May 6, 2014 _______________________________ Professor Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Advisor 1 Table of Contents Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 1 Abstract ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 5 History of European Martial Arts ................................................................................................................ 10 Medieval Time Period ............................................................................................................................. 10 Environment of the Medieval Age ...................................................................................................... 10 Knightly Combat .................................................................................................................................. 12 Masters and their Manuscripts