{"id":26402,"date":"2019-04-18T15:09:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woo.zwaardenvolk.nl\/winkel\/boeken-en\/hema-en\/swords-science-and-society-german-martial-arts-in-the-middle-ages\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:24:48","slug":"swords-science-and-society-german-martial-arts-in-the-middle-ages","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/woo.zwaardenvolk.nl\/en\/webshop\/boeken-en-default-category-en-default-category-en\/hema-en\/swords-science-and-society-german-martial-arts-in-the-middle-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Swords, Science, and Society: German Martial Arts in the Middle Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In medieval Germany, combat was a matter of life and death, and knowing the Art of Fencing was to have control over it: to have the power to save or take lives. Those who knew the Art of Fencing kept such knowledge as a closely guarded secret.<\/p>\n<p>In 15th century Bavaria, a small and secretive fellowship of fencing masters encoded their knowledge into a cryptic and arcane verse. Their Art, the &lsquo;one true art of the sword&rsquo;, was reserved only for the initiated. At the head of this fellowship was a grand-master known as Johannes Liechtenauer.<\/p>\n<p>Presented within this book is an investigation of the Company of Liechtenauer, tracing their connections and influences through archival records spanning more than a century. Scholarly Fencing is contrasted with what was referred to as &lsquo;Common Fencing&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Separating the &lsquo;common&rsquo; from the &lsquo;initiated&rsquo;, this book demonstrates the Aristotelian and Scholastic approach that defined the secret Art of Liechtenauer, and describes the science of sword-fighting in the 15th and 16th centuries.<\/p>\n<h2>Book Details<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Author: Jamie Acutt<\/li>\n<li>Editor: Keith Farrell<\/li>\n<li>Publisher: Fallen Rook Publishing<\/li>\n<li>Date of Publication: 11th March 2019<\/li>\n<li>ISBN: 978-0-9934216-9-3<\/li>\n<li>Binding: Perfect-Bound Paperback<\/li>\n<li>Pages: 249<\/li>\n<li>Height: 29.7 cm<\/li>\n<li>Width: 21.0 cm<\/li>\n<li>Language: English<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Table of Contents<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Foreword<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Liechtenauer and his Society<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Impetus for investigation<\/li>\n<li>The scope<\/li>\n<li>Outside the scope<\/li>\n<li>About Liechtenauer<\/li>\n<li>Heinrich Beringer<\/li>\n<li>Hanko D&ouml;bringer<\/li>\n<li>Peter von Danzig<\/li>\n<li>Hans Seidenfaden von Erfurt<\/li>\n<li>Hans Pegnitzer<\/li>\n<li>Andres Juden<\/li>\n<li>Vergil von Krakow<\/li>\n<li>Hans Talhoffer<\/li>\n<li>Hans Stettner<\/li>\n<li>Paulus Kal<\/li>\n<li>Sigmund Schinig\/Ringeck aus Ainring<\/li>\n<li>Other personalities<\/li>\n<li>Raitenhaslach and the&nbsp;<em>SchwanenOrdens<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Christian Egenolff and Joachim Meyer<\/li>\n<li>Conclusions and future research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Common Fencing in the Medieval Tradition<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Demarcating the Liechtenauer tradition<\/li>\n<li>The German school of fencing<\/li>\n<li>The two perspectives of Common Fencing<\/li>\n<li>Foundational Fencing<\/li>\n<li>Revisionist&nbsp;<em>fechtlehre<\/em>&nbsp;(fencing lessons) in the German school of fencing<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<li>Comparison: Common Fencing (<em>gemeinfechten<\/em>) to Liechtenauer&rsquo;s Art of Fencing (<em>Kunst des Fechtens<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Liechtenauer and his Science<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Paradigms of human motion<\/li>\n<li>Current opinion<\/li>\n<li>The structure of Liechtenauer&rsquo;s Art of Fencing (<em>Kunst des Fechtens<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>The audience<\/li>\n<li>Scholasticism (<em>studium generale<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Aristotelian Scholasticism (<em>noera theorica de aristoteles<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Aristotle&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>De Physica<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Motion (Motus)<\/li>\n<li>The grand principles of Scale (<em>Lange<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Lanx<\/em>) and Mode (<em>Masse<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Modus<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Who was Liechtenauer?<\/li>\n<li>The 4 characteristics of Liechtenauer&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Kunst des Fechtens<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Where next?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Glossary<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bibliography<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Primary sources<\/li>\n<li>Secondary sources<\/li>\n<li>Libraries and archives consulted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Endnotes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation of the Company of Liechtenauer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[331],"product_tag":[3024],"class_list":{"0":"post-26402","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-hema-en","7":"product_tag-swords-en","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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