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German fencing master named as author of Der Künstliche Fechter (Würzburg, 1679), a heavily illustrated compilation on rapier, dussack, sword and wrestling drawing substantially on Joachim Meyer and Nicolaes Petter.
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American Union Army officer and military historian who lost a leg at Gettysburg and later wrote influential studies of warfare. Theodore Ayrault Dodge also published an illustrated introduction to fencing for young readers.
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French poet, dramatist, critic and journalist associated with Parnassian poetry and Parisian literary life. Théodore de Banville wrote across verse, theatre and prose; the linked Spanish periodical component reproduces his Duelo de Monstruos in La España Moderna.
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German army captain and military fencing author. His Praktische Bajonett-Fechtschule presents a practical system of bayonet fencing for military instruction.
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Catalogue authority heading THIBAUD, associated in the reviewed records as author of “Ars digladiatoria” (1650). The surviving sources used by this catalogue do not support a safe expansion of the heading or secure life dates; it is retained explicitly as an unresolved historical attribution.
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Catalogue authority heading THINNE, associated in the reviewed records as author of “Composite pointer: Thinne manuscript / Third University of England”. The surviving sources used by this catalogue do not support a safe expansion of the heading or secure life dates; it is retained explicitly as an unresolved historical attribution.
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French cleric and dance theorist, born Jehan Tabourot, best known for `Orchesographie`. He is relevant to the project as a key witness to Renaissance bodily practice, gesture, movement pedagogy, and the social disciplines that stood close to martial and courtly training.
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Thomas A. McCarthy is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Quarter-Staff: A Practical Manual” (1883). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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English clergyman, historian, biographer and antiquary. Thomas Birch was a Fellow and secretary of the Royal Society, a trustee of the British Museum and an editor of major historical and biographical collections.
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Scottish essayist, historian, biographer and social critic whose writing strongly influenced Victorian intellectual culture. Thomas Carlyle treated early seventeenth-century German duelling in the historical essay Duelling 250 Years Ago.
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Irish novelist, travel writer, journalist and diplomat. Thomas Colley Grattan wrote historical fiction and accounts of continental Europe and served as British consul at Boston; the linked periodical contribution treats German duelling customs.
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Thomas Comber is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “A Discourse of Duels” (1687). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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