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Jan 1, 2000 · In 1467, Talhoffer, a Swabian fencing instructor, produced a lavishly illustrated fechtbuch ("fight-book") with 270 illuminations demonstrating techniques for nearly every weapon in the medieval knight's arsenal, as well as techniques for judicial combats between nobles and between peasants.
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- Hans Talhoffer, Mark Rector
The fight book also contains several sections on other martial disciplines beyond the judicial context, including dagger (26.236, fols. 88v–89r; 26.145.15; 25.188.5a, b; 26.145.10), pollaxe (26.236, fols. 76v–77r; 04.3.49; 14.25.1336), and wrestling (26.236, fols. 117v–118r), the last of which is augmented by the first appearance of what ...
Aug 21, 2016 · Medieval combat - A Fifteenth-century illustrated manual by Hans Talhoffer Bookreader Item Preview
Timeline. : A Medieval European Guide to Fighting. Pac Pobric. September 28, 2018. Hans Talhoffer (German, recorded 1435–1482). Fencing Book (Fechtbuch), sixteenth century copy of a mid-fifteenth century manuscript. German. Leather, brass, 12 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. (32.7 x 20.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Miss Marguerite ...
Medieval Fight Book: Directed by Stuart Clarke. With Pia Bach, Owen Bush, Jason Alan Carvell, Jens Christiansen. Documentary about an illustrated medieval book (Fechtbuch) on weapons and fighting, written in 1459 by Hans Talhoffer, kept in the Royal Library of Denmark.
