Preamble

This is a list of some of the books being used in the project. All of them are partially translated. In the cases of Goliath, Talhoffer, and Sutor, the longsword sections are done and I have moved onto other books. At the current time Goliath/Danzig is the main focus while Meyer and Talhoffer provide additional input to the interpretation project. Döbringer and Ringeck are not listed below because only a few specific parts of these books, parts dealing with specific concepts, have been translated so far. In fact we have long considered Ringeck to be redundant in the face of Danzig.

The Lecküchner translation project, now complete, was done on behalf of an AEMMA colleague who is interested in messer fencing. That said, it is also shedding light on many aspects of longsword fencing and vice versa. The Magister Andreas essay is almost a Rosetta Stone in helping us to see how these two weapons forms relate to each other.

Beware of over-relying on translations in progress. They usually need a good dose of proof-reading and editing before they can be called anything close to accurate. The Meyer translation, due to its elaborately verbose nature, probably has more than a few errors in it, particularly in his chapter preambles, but the actual technique descriptions are accurate enough. This translation has, at any rate, now been abandoned in favour of earlier texts and now serves us only in a secondary role.

Comments and questions can be sent to me via email.

Meyer, Goliath, Lecküchner, Talhoffer, and Sutor translations are linked on the main page. Excerpts from incomplete translations such as Danzig, Speyer, and Talhoffer's 1459 fechtbuch can be found here and there.

An incomplete translation of Gustav Hergsell's introduction to the 1887 edition of Talhoffer's 1467 fechtbuch can be found here.