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Art of Sword Combat: 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship (Hardcover)
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Art of Sword Combat: 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship (Hardcover)
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Following the success of Jeffrey L. Forgeng's translation of
Joachim Meyer's The Art of Sword Combat the author was alerted to
an earlier recension of the work which was discovered in Lund
University Library in Sweden. The manuscript, produced in
Strassburg around 1568, is illustrated with thirty watercolour
images and seven ink diagrams. The text covers combat with the
longsword (hand-and-a-half sword), dusack (a one-handed practice
weapon comparable to a sabre), and rapier. The manuscript's
theoretical discussion of guards is one of the most critical
passages to understanding this key feature of the historical
practice, not just in relation to Meyer but in relation to the
medieval combat systems in general. The manuscript offers an
extensive repertoire of training drills for both the dusack and the
rapier, a feature largely lacking in treatises of the period as a
whole but critical to modern reconstructions of the practice. The
translation also includes a biography of Meyer, much of which has
only recently come to light, as well as technical terminology, and
other essential information for understanding and contextualizing
the work.
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