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German fencing master in the Liechtenauer tradition, chiefly associated with armoured combat and dagger teachings.
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Spanish fencing master, theorist, and the central later architect of the Verdadera Destreza tradition after Jeronimo Sanchez de Carranza. He was one of the most prolific martial authors of the early modern world and played a decisive role in codifying, expanding, and institutionalizing the philosophical and technical vocabulary of Spanish swordsmanship.
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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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French government military ministry represented as the collective issuing authority for official infantry, gymnastics, sabre, lance and fencing instructions.
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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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Paduan fencing master and arms instructor of the Accademia Delia. His richly illustrated works on the flag, pike, sword and two-handed sword form an important seventeenth-century Italian fencing corpus.
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British government department responsible for administering the Army. In this catalogue it is used as the collective author of officially issued sword, bayonet and cavalry exercise manuals.
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Scottish gentleman, baronet, and one of the most important British authors on smallsword and self-defence in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Through works such as `The Scots Fencing Master`, `The Compleat Fencing-Master`, and `A New, Short, and Easy Method of Fencing`, he helped shape the British printed tradition on fencing, duelling, and practical sword use.
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