Renaissance Fight: Jörg Wilhalm’s Fightbook, 1522-1523

“Dierk Hagedorn continues to solidify his fame as considered one of in the present day’s most gifted authorities on German Fechtbücher with one other superlative quantity…Extremely beneficial for college students of historical past, historic reenactors, and in the present day’s combating practitioners.” – Christian Henry Tobler

Longsword teacher Dierk Hagedorn brings the work of some of the prolific authors of sixteenth century battle books to a contemporary viewers for the primary time. Jörg Wilhalm’s teachings characteristic combating methods with the lengthy sword, in armor and on horseback and combines the teachings of the well-known combating grasp Johannes Liechtenauer with these of his successors. Vividly illustrated all through, every method is rendered intimately that even fashionable practitioners will be capable of simply comply with.

This guide will enchantment to lovers of historic European martial arts, re-enactors, jousters, in addition to artwork historians – notably these with an curiosity within the armor and clothes of the sixteenth century. Complete in its scope, it’s a hanging and interesting perception into the traditional artwork of swordplay.