Medieval Combat 2000 Fifteenth-Century of Swordfighting & Close-Quarter Illustrated Manual – PDF

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Medieval Combat 2000 A Fifteenth-Century of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat Illustrated Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

Language : English
Pages : 161
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 Medieval Combat 2000 A Fifteenth-Century of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat Illustrated Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

CONTENTS
Foreword – John Clements
Introduction – Mark Rector 7
9
MEDIEVAL COMBAT
Plates
I Long Sword 1–67
II Armoured Combat in the Lists with Spear and Sword 68–73
III Long Sword 74–78
IV Pole-Axe 79–103
V Shield and Wooden Mace 104–126
VI Shield and Sword 128–150
VII Shield 151–164
VIII Throated Hooking Shield 165–169
IX Dagger 170–189
X Wrestling 190–221
XI Messer (“long knife”) 223–230
XII Sword and Buckler 231–239
XIII One against Two 240–241
XIV Fight between a Man and a Woman 242–250
XV Sword Fight on Horseback 251–260
XVI Hand-to-Hand Fight on Horseback 261–264
XVII Fight on Horseback with Lance and Sword 265–266
XVIII Fight on Horseback against the Crossbow 267–270
Notes to Plate Captions 291
Appendix: Swabian Text 297
Bibliography 315
Acknowledgements 319

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 Medieval Combat 2000 A Fifteenth-Century of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat Illustrated Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

FOREWORD:

A MODERN RENAISSANCE IN MEDIEVAL MARTIAL ARTS

• Today the term ‘martial arts’ is usually assumed to be synonymous with ‘Asian fighting art’. This is no surprise since popular media are notorious for misrepresenting medieval fighting.
• The medieval warrior’s craft is often reduced to the myth that combatants merely crudely bludgeoned one another or hacked and slashed savagely. Yet well established, highly sophisticated European fighting systems existed. European ‘masters of defence’ produced hundreds of detailed, well-illustrated technical manuals on their fighting methods, and the people of the Germanic states were especially prolific.
• Their manuals present to us a portrait of highly developed and innovative European martial arts based on sophisticated, systematic and effective skills. Among the best known of these works is that of Hans Talhoffer.
• His influential treatise, first produced in 1443, was reproduced many times throughout the century. Here now is the first English-language edition of the definitive work of this Fechtmeister (literally, ‘fight master’). Talhoffer, probably a follower of the Grand Fechtmeister Hans Liechtenauer, reveals an array of great-sword and two-handed sword techniques, sword and buckler moves, dagger fighting, seizures and disarms, grappling techniques, and the Austrian wrestling of Ott, a rare medieval Jewish master of whom little is known.
• The illustrated plates also show methods for judicial duels – official fights to end legal disputes and fighting with pole-weapons. Like many other medieval fighting texts, Talhoffer’s manual covers fighting in full armour and without armour.
• His manual reveals a range of both rudimentary and advanced techniques and provides a firm foundation on which to begin exploration of Western martial culture and the skills of medieval masters of defence. His manual covers fighting with swords, shields, spears, staffs, pole-axes and daggers, as well as grappling, throws, takedowns, holds and ground- fighting skills.
• Like many other teachers of his day, Talhoffer recognized that armed and unarmed fighting were only facets of personal combat and he accordingly taught an integrated art.

G.B 05/04/25