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German military engineer, physician, and compiler best known for the illustrated `Bellifortis`, one of the most famous late medieval books on military technology, siege devices, and engines of war. He belongs to the wider martial-literary tradition of arms knowledge rather than to the direct lineage of fencing instruction.
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United States executive department established in 1789 to administer military affairs and reorganized under the National Security Act of 1947. It is the collective author of the Army manuals represented here.
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French maître d'armes, fencing historian, bibliographer, and institutional figure in the Parisian fencing world. He was one of the most important late nineteenth-century historians of fencing and duelling literature, authoring bibliographical, historical, and commemorative works while also serving as president of the Académie d'Armes de Paris.
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French sporting writer known as the Baron de Vaux, author of works on duelling, fencing, pistol shooting and equestrian sport.
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Friulian fencing master, born between about 1340 and 1350, who taught at the Este court and composed the illustrated Flos duellatorum in 1409. Exact birth and death years remain unknown.
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Italian man of letters, courtier, political writer, and controversialist, also known as `Giustinopolitano`. His `Il Duello` (1550) made him one of the most important sixteenth-century authors on honour and single combat, placing him at the center of the wider literary and moral discourse around duelling rather than purely technical fence instruction.
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Fencing master active in Prague, author of modern fencing manuals and editor of historical Talhoffer manuscripts.
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Augsburg painter and printmaker, probably identical with Hans Loscher called Burgkmair. He is associated with illustrated tournament and martial manuscripts and must be distinguished from his father.
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Conventional label for an anonymous, unfinished long-sword gloss in the Liechtenauer tradition; not securely identifiable as a historical person.
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German Freifechter, printer, mercenary, and fencing master from Nuremberg. After beginning in the printing trade, he turned fully to martial pursuits, travelled widely, and produced one of the better-known German rapier books of the early seventeenth century, drawing especially on Salvator Fabris and Ridolfo Capoferro.
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German fencing master and glossator in the Liechtenauer tradition, known through manuscript witnesses of long-sword and armoured combat teachings.
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French Army officer from Ajaccio, captain in the 44th line infantry regiment and author of military fencing instruction. His later catalogued work appeared posthumously.
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