ARMORUM ARCHIVE
Spanish fencing master from Logroño, attached to the courts of Baltasar Carlos, Juan José de Austria and Carlos II, and author in the Verdadera Destreza tradition.
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French fencing author associated with a later eighteenth-century `Nouveau traité de l'art des armes`. He appears to belong to the practical instructional milieu of pre-Revolutionary French fencing, though the surviving biographical footprint is currently much weaker than the work attribution.
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Italian lawyer and author of two Venetian prose-and-verse compositions on the sword, fencing and gladiators.
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Greek fencing master, military-school instructor and gymnastics writer. He is described in modern scholarship as the first maître d’armes of Greek origin and trained Olympic fencers including his son Leonidas Pyrgos.
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Burgundian courtier, diplomat, military officer, poet and chronicler. Olivier de La Marche recorded court ceremony, warfare, tournaments and passages of arms, becoming an important witness to the late Burgundian court.
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American historian of science, historical dance and fencing who disseminated facsimiles of rare fencing sources and contributed substantially to modern HEMA research.
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German fencing master and member of the Marxbrüder, certified as a master of the long sword by 1491 and later elected captain of the guild. His illustrated fight book covers long sword, messer, dagger and other knightly weapons.
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French master of arms active in Paris and author of `Les Vrais Principes de l'Espée Seule`, one of the crucial transitional works in the move from rapier culture toward the smallsword. His treatise is significant for court fencing under Louis XIV and for the early printed articulation of practices associated with the foil and the lighter thrusting sword.
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French-born scholar, physician, editor, and prolific man of letters who spent much of his career in the Dutch Republic. He is relevant to this project through works on courtly and sword-bearing culture rather than as a fencing master, illustrating how duelling and the sword also entered broader eighteenth-century learned and moral literature.
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Swiss Protestant theologian and pastor of French Huguenot background, minister of the French church at Basel from 1710. He supplied the anti-duelling preliminary discourse for the 1740 edition of Basnage’s Dissertation historique.
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Portuguese government ministry responsible for the official cavalry and fencing regulations represented in this catalogue.
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Hungarian-born Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer and author of manuals on military sabre fencing and duelling rules.
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