24 Thursday May 2012
Posted in History and Easter Eggs
The Signori di Notte al Criminal (criminal Masters of the Night) in Venice are monitoring crimes during the night. They gathered in a dining room of the Doge’s Palace in the Chamber of Torment. On the 9th of March 1359 they tortured a German fencing master several times to make him confess a serious crime: the stealing of a fried meat pie on the market.
While the text of the I.33 is obscured by bad church Latin, the images of the I.33 are even worse. The …
wenne mit dem worte vor als e gesprochen ist / meynt her das eyner mit eyme guten vorslage ader mit …
The first thing, Master Lecküchner recommends in both his treatises is to open Schrödinger’s Box and release the cat. In …
Wenn dw mit dem zwuechten ze dem man kumbst so soltu nicht stil sten mit dem messer vnd seynen heuen …
das her in mit eynem schrete / ader mit eynem sprunge dirreichen mag / wo her denn indert in blos …
In the first surviving manuscript based on the teaching of Johannes Liechtenauer, the GMN 3227a, we already find several references …
On page 24 in 1870s Wassmannsdorf “Sechs Fechtschulen” {1} he is largely citing a book of 1861 titled “Reisen und …
Augsburg was a center of fencing activity like Nürnberg and Frankfurt. It’s early fencing show (Fechtschule) tradition starts at the …
It is reported that the Fechtschul (fencing school) was a big amusement, with high intense of emotions often ending in …
