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German Medieval & Renaissance Italian Medieval & Renaissance Iberian Medieval & Renaissance Sabre, cutlass, rapier etc Modern techniques Boxing & Pugilism Wrestling Other

NOW: FECHTSCHULEN Matt Galas "On the After blow" in European Fencing Traditions Kunst Fechter's blog article on "What exactly were the Fechtschulen?" Kevin Maurer's blog article on "Who were the Freifechter?" Christopher Amberger on Fechtschulen 16th-century Germany Kevin Maurer's article on "Insights into the fechtschulen of the MarxBruder and Federfechter's Guilds" "Did Medieval Commoners Practice with Fighting Masters?" by Hugh Knight Discussion on "Fechtschule" on Swordforum Wikipedia on Marxbr�der Wikipedia on Federfechter "Sechs Fechtschulen" by Karl Wassmansdorff - 1870 "Der Ritterlichen Freyen Kunst der Fechter" by Christoff R�sener (Master of the Longsword of the Brotherhood of St Marx) - 1589

Manuscripts and Books.

This page contains scans of handwritten manuscripts and books relating to different European combat techniques. The majority were written by German or Italian fencing masters between 1200-1600AD.

I appologize if some of the documents are categorized under the wrong header. Please let me know of any mistakes, by emailing [email protected]

Also, if you discover a document that shouldn't be online or distributed here, then please let me know. I am trying to collect as much material as possible while sustaining a proper respect for copyrights. However, unintentional mistakes can and probably will happen.

Great lists of what is known to exist or have existed can be found here:

The ARMA's list of known manuscripts Hammaborg's list of German manuscripts