![]() ![]() Yet he also presents works from masters of the same and other fields – Zwaintzig Ussrichtung (Twenty Directives) by fight-master Johann Liechtenauer Bellifortis (Battle Force) by military engineer Conrad Kyeser and Hie Lert (Here Teaches) by astrologer-physiologist Jud Ebreesch. He shares knowledge from his own field of expertise – the martial arts of Renaissance Europe. In this edition of his work, the fight-master opens a window for us to his world. The Fechtbuch (Fight-Book) from 1459 AD by Hans Talhoffer is truly an uncanny work. The book also presents an illustrated blow-by-blow account of a deadly duel from a German Fechtbuch (fight book) primary source information regarding specific training of noblemen for duels and the training of noble youth in the combat arts and a unique glossary of historical German chivalric terms for arms and armour.Lavishly illustrated with lots of period artwork, Knightly Dueling restores the concept of German chivalry to its rightful martial role and is a must for any serious scholar of the dynamic field of European martial arts. It gives Middle High German transcriptions, as well as the first and only modern English translations, of works from various fight books by Liechtenauer's renowned masterly interpreters, including Hanko Döbringer, Peter von Danzig, Hans Talhoffer and Andre Lignitzer. Knightly Dueling shows the ruthless reality of man-to-man combat of the German Kunst des Fechtens (art of fighting), providing a thorough understanding of Johannes Liechtenauer's Roszfechten (horse fighting) and Kampffechten (duel fighting). Through the words and pictures of original source texts of the great German fight-masters of the 14th through 16th centuries – extraordinary works that poetically preserved medieval methods of the true knightly dueling of mortal combat over grave matters with battlefield arms & armour.Until now, no single book has encompassed and clarified the scattered existing historical information on German dueling with swords, lances, daggers, pollaxes etc. Knightly Dueling is a complete overview of the fighting arts of German chivalric dueling, on horse and on foot, during the late Medieval and early Renaissance. Counter to that, I hope to present a definitive and contextual analysis of relevant passages from those major German fechtbücher (fencing/fight-books) which spoke of masse and accordingly provide a new, alternative and correct understanding for that significant word plus other related and relevant terms of Medieval German fighting arts. Accordingly, many otherwise smart and talented fencers, wrestlers and scholars may misunderstand what masse really meant in context of Chivalric fencing and wrestling. Moreover, said consensus has no regard for whether the context be fechten (fencing) or ringen (wrestling), where multiple meanings for the same word may have existed. That simple and obvious equation differs from the current and hitherto uncontested consensus that masse et.al. The findings may prove both revealing and riling: My conclusion is that masse meant “mass” in context of those past martial arts. This essay is the first and only exploration of what the German Tradition of Chivalric Arts (Ritterlich Kunst)-with its three main lineages of Liechtenauer, Nürnberg, Gladiatoria-meant by masse for fencing and wrestling. Contents: Questions & Answers Other Masters Fencing Symbolic-Dynamic Fighting Interpretation Modern Mark-Verses Modern Replica Longsword Bibliography About The Author That said, we know little else of these men who were the Other Masters. However, we do have the legacy of their longsword fighting lore: which is something valuable, if only now we aspire to animate it again honourably. Contrarily, is it possible that these Other Masters existed prior to Liechtenauer, and so instead he built his complex system from theirs? That seems unlikely. However, Fencing Master Kal in his Fechtbuch (1470) named none of these Other Masters among his list of masterly colleagues to the elite Liechtenauer College (Liechtenauers Gesellschaft) famously started by Grandmaster Johann Liechtenauer (?1340-1410?) whose lineage & lore were evidently the most prolific of the Medieval-to-Renaissance German Tradition of Fencing (Fechten). It should be noted that it is possible these men were unacknowledged masters in the Liechtenauer Lineage, perhaps even his direct students. These Other Masters were the following: Priest Hanko Döbringer Andres Juden Josts von der Neissen Niclas Preussen. ![]() Who Were These Other Masters Of Fencing ? These men were “other masters” who presented auxiliary longsword fencing lore in context of the professed prevalent longsword fencing lore of Master Johann Liechtenauer, as primarily covered by the majority of fighting lessons in the Döbringer Hausbuch (1389). ![]()
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