eBook - ePub
Medieval Combat in Colour
A Fifteenth-Century Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat
- 320 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Medieval Combat in Colour
A Fifteenth-Century Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat
About this book
An illustrated guide to various forms of medieval combat, originally published in 1467.
Hans Talhoffer's professional fencing manual of 1467 illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting, covering both the "judicial duel" (an officially sanctioned fight to resolve a legal dispute) and personal combat.
Combatants in the Middle Ages used footwork, avoidance, and the ability to judge and manipulate timing and distance to exploit and enhance the sword's inherent cutting and thrusting capabilities. These skills were supplemented with techniques for grappling, wrestling, kicking, and throwing the opponent, as well as disarming him by seizing his weapon. Every attack contained a defense and every defense a counterattack. Talhoffer reveals the techniques for wrestling, unarmored fighting with the long sword, poleaxe, dagger, sword and buckler, and mounted combat.
This unparalleled guide to medieval combat, illustrated with 268 contemporary images, provides a glimpse of real people fighting with skill, sophistication, and ruthlessness. This is one of the most popular and influential manuals of its kind.
"[A] book well worth owning. . . . Artistically, the work is a great exemplar of late medieval illustration." — The Medieval Review
Hans Talhoffer's professional fencing manual of 1467 illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting, covering both the "judicial duel" (an officially sanctioned fight to resolve a legal dispute) and personal combat.
Combatants in the Middle Ages used footwork, avoidance, and the ability to judge and manipulate timing and distance to exploit and enhance the sword's inherent cutting and thrusting capabilities. These skills were supplemented with techniques for grappling, wrestling, kicking, and throwing the opponent, as well as disarming him by seizing his weapon. Every attack contained a defense and every defense a counterattack. Talhoffer reveals the techniques for wrestling, unarmored fighting with the long sword, poleaxe, dagger, sword and buckler, and mounted combat.
This unparalleled guide to medieval combat, illustrated with 268 contemporary images, provides a glimpse of real people fighting with skill, sophistication, and ruthlessness. This is one of the most popular and influential manuals of its kind.
"[A] book well worth owning. . . . Artistically, the work is a great exemplar of late medieval illustration." — The Medieval Review
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Oberhau.
Unterhau.
Sturzhau.
Wechselhau.
The Zornort threatens he …
… who strikes an Oberhau.
The long Zornort.
The clasped thrust defends against this.
The free strike vom Tag.
From this, catch the neck.
A lower opening.
Another a lower opening.
Taking the sword.
Drawing out or anticipating.
Left against right, here you must fence strongly.
A free thrust.
Whipping.
From binding: pushing away, grasping behind the elbow.
Running in with a free thrust and kicking into the belly.
Two upper thrusts.
The two lower openings.
Binding away or binding behind.
Reaching over the iron gate.
The iron gate.
Feinting an Oberhau and striking into his arms.
This one executes the entangled thrust.
He strikes vom Tag.
Krummhau upwards nimbly.
Turn the point against your opponent.
Here, the Krummhau is accomplished.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword: Mark Rector
- Introduction
- Talhoffer galore
- The manuscript
- The transcription
- Glossary
- Bibliography