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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German fencing master represented in the Liechtenauer tradition, especially by sword-and-buckler and wrestling material.
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Augsburg hatter and fencing master who compiled several illustrated fight-book versions from older models.
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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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German fencing master in the Liechtenauer tradition, chiefly associated with armoured combat and dagger teachings.
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German cleric and fencing master, author of the extensive late-medieval Messer treatise preserved in Cgm 582 and related witnesses.
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German soldier, tutor, historian, and prolific martial writer whose works cover fencing, wrestling, vaulting, pike drill, flag play, and military exercises. Pasch was one of the most productive seventeenth-century German authors on physical and martial training and helped shape the printed literature of military and gymnastic exercise beyond fencing alone.
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German fencing master at the court of Duke Ludwig IX of Bavaria and compiler of an influential illustrated fight book.
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Early seventeenth-century German Freifechter associated with a cluster of rapier and fencing manuscripts and with a printed treatise of 1620. He belongs to the German reception of Italian rapier fencing and appears to stand at an important point between manuscript teaching tradition and printed technical literature.
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German-language compiler or fencing authority conventionally known as Lew. The surviving corpus transmits teachings on armoured and mounted combat within the Liechtenauer tradition; the identity behind the short name remains uncertain.
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Augsburg civic official, chronicler, collector and compiler of major Renaissance fencing manuscripts.
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