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  • ...hing private lessons and performing public exhibitions; he also dabbled in other forms of performance including charlatanism, puppetry, and tightrope walkin ...ic piazza in Venice, proving himself the most capable dentist in the city (other than his wife).<ref name="Lasagni"/> In 1711 (during this same period), he
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  • ...g"). ''Sciomachia et hoplomachia'' is described as "book one", but no book two ever seems to have emerged.
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  • ...f the fight will occur with the spear. So you should prepare yourself with two ground positions, just as is now explained.<section end="2"/> ...oes beyond you,<ref>Pushes out</ref> then jerk through and stab him to the other side. Or if he stays with the point before his face, then don't jerk. But r
    20 KB (3,736 words) - 00:09, 1 November 2022
  • ...lified typology was then slightly expanded by Oakeshott by the addition of two transitional types into its current nine categories (Type I-IX). From this
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  • ...r drawn in by artists after the printing was complete. For this reason, no two copies of the book have precisely the same artwork or the same number of il
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  • ...n that his publishers went bankrupt part way through the production of his two longest series of woodcuts, and the cutting was later completed by cutters
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  • | Format = Double-sided; one or two illustrations per <br/>side, with captions ...includes a brief series of fencing and wrestling pieces based on the only two printed German books on fighting at the time, the anonymous ''[[Das Landshu
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  • ...soon after his master's death in 1600. This was followed by at least eight other printed fencing manuals, including a revised edition of Carranza's own work ...perceived flaws in his Destreza. This ultimately broke the tradition into two competing camps, called Carrancistas and Pachequistas, a schism that was ne
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  • ...to him by Hans Medel are given below. This gloss also includes a number of other statements attributed only to "Master Hans", which might equally be referen ...f his head. Thereafter according to the two plays in his school rules with other strikes, steps and deception.</p>
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  • <section begin="12"/>Against all kinds of weapons, learn two techniques with empty hands.<section end="12"/> The twelfth show how to parry all kinds of weapons in two ways.<section end="43"/>
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  • ...rd and of the dagger, and the points of the sword, as you can see in these two figures.</p> | point at one foot from the ground. Being on the third, at two feet from the ground. And on the fourth, at the height of the crotch. And t
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  • | Other = ...verses resembling [[Johannes Liechtenauer]]'s [[Recital]], but it has few other obvious parallels to the teachings of the high master.<ref name="Handschrif
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  • | Do this manly<br/>&emsp;and make it useless in other hands. | Before and after, from these two things<br/>&emsp;the whole art stem,
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  • | Format = Single-sided; two illustrations per side, <br/>with text above
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  • In 1611, Schöffer wrote a two-volume treatise on fencing with the single rapier and with rapier and dagge
    7 KB (836 words) - 20:44, 2 November 2023
  • ...ifferent points but is occasionally better served as a conjunction between two related sentences (i.e. as "further" or "likewise"). ...hen'', "thrust"/"stab" (context dependent); instances of stabbing that use other verbs will be footnoted.</ref> himself.<section end="2"/>
    33 KB (5,852 words) - 02:32, 27 March 2024
  • ...mary or copy of other works both extant and lost. The author does not cite other authors within the body of the text itself. ...o Ibn Akhī Ḥizām Kitāb al-makhzūn, 28r, 36r, 62r etc.</ref>. Distinct from other works in the genre with lengthy introductions, Jāmiʿ al-funūn begins wit
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  • ...ed to learn exotic fighting arts.<ref>Similar statements are made by a few other masters in this period, including [[Fiore de'i Liberi]], [[Martin Syber]], ...; in the absence of direct records, we must turn to external evidence. The two-handed sword that is the subject of much of Liechtenauer's teachings emerge
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  • | manfully brandish<br/>&emsp;and in other hands ruin. | The Before, The After the two things<br/>&emsp;are the wellspring of all art.
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  • ...ality::German]] [[fencing manual]]s, one created in the late 1400s and the other dated 1515. It was owned by the Counts of Ortenburg from 1558 to the 1980s,
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