Talhoffer Dagger – Part 2 – Versetzen und Auswinden
The first plate of the Talhoffer dagger plays in the Munich manuscript, 1467 Cod. icon 394a, contains the first play of …
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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 …
Andre Paurnfeind – a Freifechter, fencing master, and personal guard
Little is told by the current state of research about the author of of the first known printed book explaining Liechtenauer’s …
A Fechtmeister for 50 Pfennige
In the year 1890 you could become a „Fechtmeister“ if you bring 20 members to the “Deutsche Generalfechtschule” in Baden-Baden. …
1435 February 2nd – Talhoffer’s second letter to Erhard Haller
The following is a transcription of letter of Hans Talhoffer to the knight Erhard Haller in Nürnberg. It is part of …
1434 March 23th – Talhoffer’s first letter to Erhard Haller
The following is a transcription of letter of Hans Talhoffer to the knight Erhard Haller in Nürnberg. It is part of …
1434 March 20th – Talhoffer’s confession in Salzburg
The following is a transcription of an “open letter” containing a witnessed confession of Hans Talhoffer in regard of a …
The “Halpschilt” – Halbschild (Half-Shield)
One of the most prominent terms in the book I.33 is the “halpshilt” or in modern German “Halbschild” translated as …
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 …
1487 The duel between Johann von Waldburg-Sonnenberg and Antonio Maria d’ Aragonia di San Severino
In the parish church (the former abbey church) St. Katharina, in Wolfegg in Bavaria (Germany) is a ceiling fresco in the main aisle …
