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The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Leckuchner
Hans Leckuchner
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Description for The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Leckuchner
Hardback. English translation of one of the most significant medieval texts on fighting with swords. Translator(s): Forgeng, Mr. Jeffrey L. Series: Armour and Weapons. Num Pages: 481 pages, 443 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; WSTF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 35. Weight in Grams: 938.
Completed in 1482, Johannes Leckuchner's Art of Combat with the Langes Messer (Messerfechtkunst) is among the most important documents on the combat arts of the Middle Ages. The Messer was a single-edged, one-handed utility sword peculiar to central Europe, but Leckuchner's techniques apply to cut-and-thrust swords in general: not only is this treatise the single most substantial work on the use of one-handed swords to survive from this period, but it is the most detailed explanation of the two-handed sword techniques of the German Liechtenauer school dating back to the 1300s. Leckuchner's lavish manuscript consists of ... Read more
Completed in 1482, Johannes Leckuchner's Art of Combat with the Langes Messer (Messerfechtkunst) is among the most important documents on the combat arts of the Middle Ages. The Messer was a single-edged, one-handed utility sword peculiar to central Europe, but Leckuchner's techniques apply to cut-and-thrust swords in general: not only is this treatise the single most substantial work on the use of one-handed swords to survive from this period, but it is the most detailed explanation of the two-handed sword techniques of the German Liechtenauer school dating back to the 1300s. Leckuchner's lavish manuscript consists of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
481
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783270286
SKU
V9781783270286
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About Hans Leckuchner
Jeffrey L Forgeng is curator of the Worcester Art Museum's Higgins Collection, the second largest collection of arms and armor in the Americas, and also teaches as Adjunct Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His academic work specializes in European treatises on the use of arms and armor.
Reviews for The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Leckuchner
It is clear that Jeffrey Forgeng is not only a technical expert on the weapon illustrated in this manual, but also a scholar deeply versed in the manuscript tradition of which this volume is a part as well as in the accumulated historiography that treats it. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW A fantastic attempt to make the fecht-bucher ... Read more