Treatises to the Long Knife (Langes Messer)
The Long Knife (Langes Messer) is a cut and thrust weapon from the Middle Ages, which enjoyed great popularity as …
Category Archives: From the Manuscripts
Five Rules Of Footwork
The first rules of the common laws of fencing in the most prominent manuscript on Liechtenauer fencing tells us about …
Translator’s Problem: a “Stück” of Fencing
When we come to the translation of fencing books we will find that there are sets of combined body motions …
Explaining the German fencing terms by simple means of wrestling
Explaining the Liechtenauer five words and other German fencing terms is a very simple thing if you look at them …
Of buffaloes and peasants not knowing to feel the sword
Keith Farrell is one of my favorite author and sword companion especially if it comes to teach me the Scottish …
A man wrote a fight-book. It’s incredible what happened 500 years later.
In the paper “Limits of Understanding in Historical European Martial Arts Studies” my friend Eric Burkhart introduced a variation of …
The danger of the attack – a translater’s problem
The sources we use to reconstruct the historical martial arts are written in a language that is not fully understandable …
The true meaning of “Vorschlag” and “Nachschlag”
The understanding of the terms “Vorschlag” and “Nachschlag” in the teaching of Johannes Liechtenauer is widely based on the interpretations …
The ultimate guide to the prime Medieval German Fencing Terms
Sword fighting is not that complicated: you take a sword and hit hard. But to explain and teach the art …
Active or Passive, and Double “Vor”
wenne mit dem worte vor als e gesprochen ist / meynt her das eyner mit eyme guten vorslage ader mit …
