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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 German Treatise on Swordsmanship - Joachim Meyer - Google книги Nonetheless, given that Meyer married in , and that the typical age for first marriage in men of his class was in the early to mids, he is likely to have been born in the latter half of the s. We can be reasonably sure that Meyer grew up in advantaged middle-class circumstances of the day: his family had the means to secure him an apprenticeship, as well as a solid education, as evidenced by his literary skill and familiarity with historical sources, particularly evident in the preface to the published Art of Combat. Strassburg in the s was a small city of about 22, inhabitants. Like Basel, Strassburg was located on the Rhine actually just off the river, with a system of waterways connecting the city to the Rhine itself. The two cities were closely bound to each other economically and culturally — in addition to the ties of Rhenish trade, both were important Protestant centres in the German-speaking world. Through right of the widow, Meyer was himself admitted to citizenship six days after his marriage. The marriage record specifies that Meyer was a cutler, and the record of his citizenship assigns him to the Company of Smiths, which served as the general guild for a variety of metalworking crafts. With relatively high mortality rates, widowhood was not a rare event even for fairly young women, and in the male-dominated world of the s it was advantageous for a widow to find a new husband to help keep her household financially stable. Widows actually accounted for about 40 per cent of brides in Strassburg during the s, although the figure was somewhat elevated by an epidemic of the plague in In addition to his day job as a cutler, Meyer was an experienced practitioner of the martial arts. Multiple entries in the minutes of the city council over the course of the s document requests from Meyer for permission to hold public fencing competitions Fechtschulen. The earliest of these, in , mentions another fencer, Christoph Elias, who is described as having studied under Meyer, implying that Meyer was already an advanced practitioner at this time. Over the course of the s Meyer was clearly becoming a significant player in the fencing scene. In addition to his activities as a teacher and organiser of prizefights, he was seeking out both German and foreign sources of knowledge on the martial arts, as alluded to in the published Art of Combat 2. He eventually began producing written treatises of his own, including the present manuscript, parts of the Rostock Fechtbuch, and the published Art of Combat. By the latter half of the decade Meyer was beginning to make himself known to important aficionados of the art outside of Strassburg. In later years Otto would enter military service with Pfalzgraf Johann Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern — , to whom Meyer dedicated the printed Art of Combat in The printed Art of Combat was richly illustrated with woodblock prints: art historians attribute the designs stylistically to Tobias Stimmer, a Swiss artist who was active in both Switzerland and Strassburg during this period. 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The Art of Sword Combat: A German Treatise on Swordmanship — Academy of Historical Arts Nonetheless, given that Meyer married in , and that the typical age for first marriage in men of his class was in the early to mids, he is likely to have been born in the latter half of the s. We can be reasonably sure that Meyer grew up in advantaged middle-class circumstances of the day: his family had the means to secure him an apprenticeship, as well as a solid education, as evidenced by his literary skill and familiarity with historical sources, particularly evident in the preface to the published Art of Combat. Strassburg in the s was a small city of about 22, inhabitants. Like Basel, Strassburg was located on the Rhine actually just off the river, with a system of waterways connecting the city to the Rhine itself. The two cities were closely bound to each other economically and culturally — in addition to the ties of Rhenish trade, both were important Protestant centres in the German-speaking world. Through right of the widow, Meyer was himself admitted to citizenship six days after his marriage. The marriage record specifies that Meyer was a cutler, and the record of his citizenship assigns him to the Company of Smiths, which served as the general guild for a variety of metalworking crafts. With relatively high mortality rates, widowhood was not a rare event even for fairly young women, and in the male-dominated world of the s it was advantageous for a widow to find a new husband to help keep her household financially stable. Widows actually accounted for about 40 per cent of brides in Strassburg during the s, although the figure was somewhat elevated by an epidemic of the plague in In addition to his day job as a cutler, Meyer was an experienced practitioner of the martial arts. Multiple entries in the minutes of the city council over the course of the s document requests from Meyer for permission to hold public fencing competitions Fechtschulen. The earliest of these, in , mentions another fencer, Christoph Elias, who is described as having studied under Meyer, implying that Meyer was already an advanced practitioner at this time. Over the course of the s Meyer was clearly becoming a significant player in the fencing scene. In addition to his activities as a teacher and organiser of prizefights, he was seeking out both German and foreign sources of knowledge on the martial arts, as alluded to in the published Art of Combat 2. He eventually began producing written treatises of his own, including the present manuscript, parts of the Rostock Fechtbuch, and the published Art of Combat. By the latter half of the decade Meyer was beginning to make himself known to important aficionados of the art outside of Strassburg. In later years Otto would enter military service with Pfalzgraf Johann Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern — , to whom Meyer dedicated the printed Art of Combat in The printed Art of Combat was richly illustrated with woodblock prints: art historians attribute the designs stylistically to Tobias Stimmer, a Swiss artist who was active in both Switzerland and Strassburg during this period. He travelled to Speyer in , probably in conjunction with the Imperial Diet Reichstag that took place there that summer, which would have afforded an excellent opportunity to show his recent publication to prospective patrons among the German aristocracy. In addition to income from the position, Meyer believed that the court would provide an excellent market for his newly published work, which he thought he might sell for over 30 florins a copy. He shipped his books to Schwerin, and set out in person in January He arrived at Schwerin on 10 February, and died on 24 February, exactly one year after the date of his preface to The Art of Combat. One may wonder whether the Duke was being entirely truthful. First published in Strassburg in , the book was well received by contemporaries. It was reprinted in a virtually identical edition in Augsburg in , and heavily cribbed by Jacob Sutor for his New Kunstliches Fechtbuch and by Theodor Verolinus for Der Kunstliche Fechter Upload Sign In Join. Find your next favorite book Become a member today and read free for 30 days Start your free 30 days. Category: Books Tags: book , longsword. Description Description After the publication of Jeffrey L. Keith Farrell. Related Articles. Footer This website is operated and maintained by Keith Farrell.