German school of fencing
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The German school of fencing is a system of combat taught in the Holy Roman Empire during the Late Medieval, German Renaissance, and early modern periods. It is described in the contemporary Fechtbüch
page of Mscr. Dresd. C 93 by Paulus Hector Mair (1540s)
pflug and ochs, as shown on fol. 1r of Cod. 44 A 8 (1452)
fol. 2r, showing vom tag and alber
Halbschwert against Mordstreich in the Codex Wallerstein (Plate 214)
Johannes Liechtenauer
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Johannes Liechtenauer was a German fencing master who had a great level of influence on the German fencing tradition in the 14th century.
German school of fencing
…mounted combat and unarmed grappling (ringen). Most authors of writings on the system are, or claim to be, in the tradition of the 14th-century master Johannes Liechtenauer. The earliest surviving treatise on Liechtenauer's system is a manuscript dated to possibly the late 14th, or early 15th century, known as Ms. 3227a…
This image of a seated master precedes the gloss of Liechtenauer's teachings in the Codex 44A.8.