Art and Practice of 16th-Century German Fencing (häftad)

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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 226
Utgivningsdatum: 2020-11-03
Förlag: Freelance Academy Press
Medarbetare: Norling, Roger / Elsner, Ted
Dimensioner: 251 x 178 x 15 mm
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ISBN: 9781937439385

Art and Practice of 16th-Century German Fencing

Name: Art and Practice of 16th-Century German Fencing
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Author: Robert Rutherfoord
ISBN: 9781937439385

A Guide to the Use of Joachim Meyer's Rapier

av Robert Rutherfoord

Häftad, Engelska, 2020-11-03

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Joachim Meyer (ca. 1537 - 1571) was one of the most influential fencing masters of the Renaissance--a prolific writer of fencing manuals. In this training guide, Robert Rutherfoord unpacks the complex and elegant art of Meyer's rapier in word and image, including over 200 easy to follow illustrations to bring the art to life. Meyer's monumental "A Thorough Description of the Free, Chivalric, and Noble Art of Fencing, Showing Various Customary Defenses, Affected and Put Forth with Many Handsome and Useful Drawings" was reprinted, adapted and outright plagiarized for over a century after his death. As a martial artist, he was both the last great master of the medieval Liechtenauer fencing tradition and a young innovator, who combined his native, German traditions with those of the Italian and Spanish fencing masters to create a wholly unique systems of fighting with a vast number of weapons. The centrepiece of his work, however, was the cut-and-thrust "sidesword" or "early rapier" which was rapidly eclipsing the knightly two-handed longsword in popularity. Meyer's synthesis not only adapted his native art to this Mediterranean weapon, but in some cases, his innovations prefigured the developments of rapier fencing that Italian masters would promote in the next quarter century after his untimely death.

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Robert Rutherfoord is the sidesword instructor at the Chicago Swordplay Guild.¿ He has been practising the sword arts for over twenty years, and teaches internationally.