Fechtbuch

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Fechtbuch (plural Fechtbücher) is Early Modern High German for "combat manual"[1], one of the manuscripts or printed books of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance containing descriptions of a martial art. Usually, the term is taken to include 15th and 16th century German manuals, but the nature of the subject matter does not allow a clear separation of these from treatises from other parts of Europe on one hand (particularly from the Italian and French schools), and from manuals of later centuries on the other hand.

List of Fechtbücher:

  • French manuals
    • Le jeu de la hache (ca 1400)
    • Anonymous. "La noble science des joueurs d'espee" (1528)
    • Henry de Sainct-Didier "Traité contenant les secrets du premier livre de l’épée seule, mère de toutes les armes, qui sont épée, dague, cappe, targue, bouclier, rondelle, l’espée deux mains, et les deux espées, avec ses pourtraictures, …" (1573)
    • Girard Thibault d'Anvers "Académie de l'epee, ou se démontrent par reigles mathématique, sur le fondement d'un cercle mysterieux, la theorie et pratique des vrais et jusqu'a present incognus secrets du maniement des armes, à pied et a cheval" (1623)
    • Monsieur L'Abbat "The Art of Fencing, or, the Use of the Small Sword" (1734)
  • English manuals
    • "Additional Manuscript 39564", 15th century [6]
    • Harliean Manuscript 3542 ("The Man Who Wol"), 15th century [7]
    • George Silver "Paradoxes of Defense" (1599)
    • Joseph Swetnam "Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Science of Defence" (1612) [8]
    • Sir William Hope, several books (1690s)
    • Capt. John Godfrey "A Treatise Upon the Useful Science of Defence, Connecting the Small and Back-Sword" (1747)
    • Alfred Hutton "Cold Steel, A Practical Treatise on the Sabre" (1889), "Old Sword-Play" (1892)
  • Portuguese manuals
    • A ensinança de bem cavalgar em toda a sela by Edward of Portugal (1391–1438)
    • Memorial da Prattica do Montante Que inclue dezaseis regras simplez (1651)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ fechten is cognate to English fight and still meant "fight, combat" in general in Early Modern times; in contemporary Standard German, fechten translates to "fencing", while the noun Gefecht retains the generic meaning of "fight, battle".

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