Masters of the Sword: Peter Falkner and Hans Medel

Two late-medieval fencing masters, one shared tradition — and a body of work that still informs practice today. The World They Inhabited The second half of the fifteenth century was a golden age for the German fencing tradition. The Liechtenauer system, named for the great synthesiser Johannes Liechtenauer, whose cryptic verse Zettel underpinned virtually all […]