Also known as
Fencing · European swordsmanship · Western fencing
Description
The European art of the sword and related weapons, as taught by masters of
defence from the late Middle Ages: the German school of Liechtenauer, the
Italian schools of Fiore dei Liberi and Bologna, the Spanish Destreza, the
English masters of defence, and the later rapier, smallsword and classical
schools from which the modern sport descends. Masters taught wrestling, dagger
and polearms with the sword.
Tags
fencing · weapons · historical-european-martial-arts
Sources
“The oldest surviving treatise on western fencing is the Royal Armouries Ms.
I.33, also known as the Tower manuscript, written c. 1300 in present-day
Germany, which discusses the usage of the arming sword together with the
buckler.”
“The first evidence of a continuous, European tradition begins two generations
later, with the German grandmaster Johannes Liechtenauer.”
— Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010).
Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). European fencing. In Martialis: Martial
Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M5JRHX02FJ6XZ3X069NVX3SE - CC
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