Emperor’s Gambit? On the Role of Urban Culture and Fencing Fraternities in the Military Reform of Maximilian I Habsburg [PDF]
This paper aims to trace potential links between the military reform undertaken by King Maximilian I Habsburg, initiated by forming the first Landsknecht regiments in 1486, and the privilege issued in 1487 by his father, Emperor Frederick III, for the ...
Talaga, Maciej
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An analysis and comparison of two German thrust-fencing manuscripts [PDF]
In this contribution, we will discuss two German fencing manuscripts - Mscr.Dresd.C.13 (SLUB Dresden) and Add MS 17533 (BL London). Both manuscripts present texts on thrust-fencing based on the teachings of Salvator Fabris.
Schäfer, Jan, van Noort, Reinier
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The use of scholastic concepts in describing fighting technique in European fight books (1400-1600) as cultural and intellectual markers [PDF]
At the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, some authors of the fight books, or those involved in copying or rewriting existing content about fighting techniques used scholastic concepts either explicitly or implicitly. Scholastic concepts
Jaquet, Daniel
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Fighting in the Fightschools late XVth, early XVIth century [PDF]
This article discusses the role played by Fightmaster (master-at-arms, Schirm- or Fechtmeister ) in the Fightschools (Fechtschulen ) taking place in the swiss cities at the end of the middle ages.
Jaquet, Daniel
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Teksti, muisti, taito: myöhäiskeskiaikainen kamppailukirja tekniikan välittäjänä [PDF]
Keskiaikaiset kamppailukirjat ovat teoksia, jotka välittävät tai kuvailevat kamppailutekniikkaa. Vaikka varsinaisten kamppailutaitojen hankkiminen edellyttää käytännön harjoittelua, voivat kamppailukirjat kuitenkin toimia muistin tukena eksplisiittisen ...
Ijäs, Antti
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Turnier-, Fecht- und Ringbücher in den Bibliotheken der Ernestiner [PDF]
Initial attempts to reconstruct private libraries of the Ernestine princes and recent findings shedding new light on the provenance of manuscripts illustrating and describing dual combat in the Late Middle Ages have revealed that members of this dynasty ...
Gehrt, Daniel
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Freska s motivem zápasníků z hradu Švihova v kontextu vývoje evropských bojových systémů
V předkládaném příspěvku je hodnocena část známé freskové výzdoby z Červené bašty na hradě Švihově, která zobrazuje zápasící dvojici, a to z poněkud netradičního úhlu.
Petr Žákovský
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Two late flying prints informing on the artist involved in the Opera Nova of Achille Marozzo and on the date of an original (lost) edition? [PDF]
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Gotti, Roberto, Jaquet, Daniel
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Visualizing the Fight Book Tradition
The Thun-Hohenstein album, long-known as the Thun’sche Skizzenbuch, is a bound collection of 112 drawings that visualize armoured figures at rest and in combat, as well as empty armours arrayed in pieces.
Chassica Kirchhoff
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Moderne Schwertkampf-Trainer als ‚Erben’ alter Meister Vorbilder und Vermittlungspraxen mittelalterlichen europäischen Schwertkampfs in der „Historical European Martial Arts“-Szene in Deutschland. [PDF]
Ende der 1990er Jahre wurden in den USA und später in Deutschland und anderen Ländern erstmals einige Vereine und Clubs für ‚Mittelalterlichen Europäischen Schwertkampf‘ gegründet. Sie setzten sich zum Ziel Techniken, die in Fechtbüchern ab ca.
Keller, Sebastian
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