{"id":10870,"date":"2012-01-25T02:07:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T02:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10870"},"modified":"2012-01-26T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T03:47:07","slug":"fechtbuch-von-1467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/01\/25\/fechtbuch-von-1467\/","title":{"rendered":"Fechtbuch von 1467"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fechtbuch1.jpg\" alt=\"fechtbuch1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The men with swords theme exhausts itself pretty quickly unless you want to draw continual attention to martial statuary, or those softcore beefcake photos where\u2014as we&#8217;ve seen on several occasions\u2014the sword is a subterfuge for other concerns. Hans Thalhofer (or Talhoffer:\u00a0c. 1420\u2013c. 1490) was a German fencing master whose <em>Fechtbuch von 1467<\/em> is worth looking at today not least for its variety of what to our eyes, used to orderly fencing matches, look like very unorthodox moves. Needless to say, when you&#8217;re fighting for your life matters of orthodoxy are the last thing on your mind, so why not kick or trip your opponent? One of the great things about books such as this is the window they give on life as it was actually lived, not the mediated (and often erroneous) impressions we receive via film and television.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fechtbuch2.jpg\" alt=\"fechtbuch2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Fechtbuch_(Talhoffer)\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> has many more examples such as these while the <a href=\"http:\/\/daten.digitale-sammlungen.de\/0002\/bsb00020451\/images\/index.html?fip=193.174.98.30&amp;id=00020451&amp;seite=1\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00fcnchener Bibliothek<\/a> has a scan of the entire book.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fechtbuch3.jpg\" alt=\"fechtbuch3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-men-with-swords-archive\/\">The men with swords archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men with swords theme exhausts itself pretty quickly unless you want to draw continual attention to martial statuary, or those softcore beefcake photos where\u2014as we&#8217;ve seen on several occasions\u2014the sword is a subterfuge for other concerns. Hans Thalhofer (or Talhoffer:\u00a0c. 1420\u2013c. 1490) was a German fencing master whose Fechtbuch von 1467 is worth looking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/01\/25\/fechtbuch-von-1467\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fechtbuch von 1467&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[64,3282,63],"class_list":["post-10870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-beefcake","tag-hans-thalhofer","tag-swords"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2Pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}