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Cool Jeff.
Is the translated material from Doebringer, von Danzig, Talhoffer and Lignitzer the entirety of their manuals, or just certain parts?
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Christian Henry Tobler
Location: Oxford, CT Joined: 25 Aug 2003
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M. Eversberg II
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Looks great -- if the reviews are favorable I will grab a copy.
M.
This space for rent or lease.
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Allen Foster
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Aren't you same fellow who wrote all those excellent ARMA essays like Mertin Siber’s Longsword Fight-Lore of 1491 AD?
I am definately buying your book.
"Rise up, O Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed and those who hate thee be driven from thy face."
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Reece Nelson
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this looks fantastic! thanks for posting!
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Joe Fults
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Great to see when somebody whose name I recognize gets something new published.
Amazon reviews look good for the work so far.
"The goal shouldn’t be to avoid being evil; it should be to actively do good." - Danah Boyd
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Allen Foster
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The book talks about a type of equestrian mounted combat that the German Ritter used called Roszfechten (literally horsefighting). I've never heard or read about anything like this until now. Have any of you heard of Roszfechten? Apparently this is the first modern publication documenting it.
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Jared Smith
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Ulrich Von Lichtenstein mentioned 7 types of horse mounted contests (styles of jousts) in his autobiography. Some of them were still considered unknown when recent authors commented on his material. (It may be questionable in terms of exaggerating his own achievements, but the background is considered authentic and based on real events anyway.)
Absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence!
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Bill Grandy
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| Allen Foster wrote: | | The book talks about a type of equestrian mounted combat that the German Ritter used called Roszfechten (literally horsefighting). |
Rossfechten is detailed in many of the surviving German fencing treatises. As far as modern publications, Christian Tobler's first book Secrets of Medieval German Swordsmanship has a section on it based on the writings of Sigmund Ringeck. Mark Rector's translation of Talhoffer, Medieval Combat, has a very small section on it (though, like much of Talhoffer, it isn't really a "how to" manual). I can't think of any other major publications from the German sources dealing with the subject, though there was an article in Western Martial Arts Illustrated dealing with it.
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This is a standard topic
