ARMORUM ARCHIVE
Influential German fencing master credited with the Kunst des langen Schwerts; his oral teachings were first recorded shortly before 1400.
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Upper German fencing master responsible for a major illustrated manuscript tradition covering armoured, unarmoured and judicial combat.
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Italian army colonel, writer, fencing historian and bibliographer; organizer of the permanent court of honour in Florence.
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Sicilian fencing theorist active in Catania in the mid-nineteenth century. His writings treated fencing as a science and addressed its philosophical, tactical and social dimensions.
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German-language wrestling master known as Ott Jud, described in manuscript witnesses as wrestling master to the princes of Austria. His teachings circulated widely in the Liechtenauer tradition.
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Catanese fencing professor associated with the Collegio Cutelli and author of an extensive corpus on fencing theory, terminology, pedagogy and self-instruction.
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British Army officer, antiquarian and fencing author who helped revive historical fencing in late Victorian Britain and became the first president of the Amateur Fencing Association in 1901.
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German fencing master represented in the Liechtenauer tradition, especially by sword-and-buckler and wrestling material.
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British author, antiquarian, swordsman, and one of the most influential Victorian historians of fencing. His `Schools and Masters of Fence` became a classic reference work for the historical study of European swordsmanship and helped shape modern antiquarian and early reconstruction interest in historical fencing.
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Augsburg hatter and fencing master who compiled several illustrated fight-book versions from older models.
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Italian fencing master from Padua whose `Scienza d'Arme` became one of the most influential rapier treatises in Europe. Fabris worked at the Danish court under Christian IV, and his teachings profoundly shaped German fencing through translations, reprints, and the work of later masters influenced by him.
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German teacher, philologist and historian of gymnastics and fencing. Based in Heidelberg, he edited and studied important medieval and early-modern German wrestling and fencing sources.
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