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The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Lecküchner

The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Lecküchner

Forgeng, Jeffrey L.

Paperback

Series: Armour and Weapons, Book 4

Medieval & Renaissance HistorySports GeneralWeaponry & Vehicles

ISBN10: 1783272910
ISBN13: 9781783272914
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Mar 16 2018
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
English translation of one of the most significant medieval texts on fighting with swords.

Completed in 1482, Johannes Lecküchner's Art of Combat with the Langes Messer (Messerfechtkunst) is among the most important documents on the combat arts of the Middle Ages. The Messer was a single-edged, one-handed utility sword peculiar to central Europe, but Lecküchner's techniques apply to cut-and-thrust swords in general: not only is this treatise the single most substantial work on the use of one-handed swords to survive from this period, but it is the most detailed explanation of the two-handed sword techniques of the German Liechtenauer school dating back to the 1300s. Lecküchner's lavish manuscript consists of over four hundred illustrations with explanatory text, in which the author, a parish priest, rings the changes on bladework, deceits, and grappling, with techniques ranging from life-or-death escapes from an armed assailant to slapstick moves designed to please the crowd in public fencing matches.

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