A Historical Martial Arts blog by Jens P. Kleinau
Gloss Liechtenauer wants the young knights to love God. As Alanus de Insula said in his Summa de arte praedicatoria relying on Ephes. 3, “Amor Dei mater est omnium virtutum, amor saeculi mater est omnium vitiorum.”, the love to God is the mother of all virtues, while the love for worldly things is the mother … Continue reading Liechtenauer New Glosses – Preface Part 1
The first plate of the Talhoffer dagger plays in the Munich manuscript, 1467 Cod. icon 394a, contains the main guards or "free stances" in Dagger. The plate is to be understood as separate even they could be constructed as a sequence. To the right side we see the Oberstich and Unterstich (combined as a Treiben). At … Continue reading Talhoffer Dagger – Part 1 – Treiben zu den Blößen
The first plate of the Talhoffer dagger plays in the Munich manuscript, 1467 Cod. icon 394a, contains the first play of dagger. A simple displacement and a disarming of the opponent. The text in the images are to be translated: He wants to stab down from above / So he moves up with the displacement and wants … Continue reading Talhoffer Dagger – Part 2 – Versetzen und Auswinden
Little is told by the current state of research about the author of of the first known printed book explaining Liechtenauer's teaching: Andre Paurnfeind (Pawrnfeyndt, Bauernfeind, Paurenfeint). In the first article of this series on his fencing with a single handed weapon I will provide some background about the man. In current literature up to 2016 Andre Paurnfeind is … Continue reading Andre Paurnfeind – a Freifechter, fencing master, and personal guard
The sources we use to reconstruct the historical martial arts are written in a language that is not fully understandable to us. Words change meanings or have multiple meanings and so we need to interprete not only the martial art, it already starts with interpreting the text in a critical manner. This includes reading it … Continue reading The danger of the attack – a translater’s problem
The Folios 128r-129v of the KK5126, Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria, do contain some recommendations for a participant of a mace - shield duel in a judicial court. The most interesting thing for us is that it is not absolutely expected that the fighters must die. It is asked for regulations, what will happen if someone wins … Continue reading What to do if you are called for the judicial duel with mace and shield
This post is part of a series. It is reflecting all the plays of Hans Lecküchner, a late medieval fencing master and author of a superior fencing book. Most of the plays had been presented at various national and international events in workshops by the author of this blog. To promote the plays to a wider … Continue reading Lecküchner’s Messerfechten: The Krieg (folios 9v-14r)
This post is part of a series. It is reflecting all the plays of Hans Lecküchner, a late medieval fencing master and author of a superior fencing book. Most of the plays had been presented at various national and international events in workshops by the author of this blog. To promote the plays to a wider … Continue reading Lecküchner’s Messerfechten: The Zornhau (folios 3r-9r)
This post is part of a series. It is reflecting all the plays of Hans Lecküchner, a late medieval fencing master and author of a superior fencing book. Most of the plays had been presented at various national and international events in workshops by the author of this blog. To promote the plays to a wider … Continue reading Lecküchner’s Messerfechten: The Preface (folios 1r-2v)
This post is part of a series. It is reflecting all the plays of Hans Lecküchner, a late medieval fencing master and author of a superior fencing book. Most of the plays had been presented at various national and international events in workshops by the author of this blog. To promote the plays to a wider … Continue reading Lecküchner’s Messerfechten: The Durchlaufen (folios 72v-82r)
