Ringen (Medieval German Wrestling) in culture
Films, books, historical sources and other works connected with Ringen (Medieval German Wrestling), a style of the German School of Fencing family (Germany). 19 works.
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1390Nuremberg Hausbuch (MS 3227a)Household miscellany from around 1390, the oldest surviving manuscript with the teaching of Johannes Liechtenauer, kept in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.German School of FencingHEMA1420Codex Wallerstein (Cod.I.6.4º.2)Augsburg manuscript combining two to three treatises from roughly 1420–1470 on the sword, messer, dagger, wrestling, short sword and long shield.HEMA1430GladiatoriaFive anonymous German manuscripts from the thirties to nineties of the 15th century on fighting in full armour. The content follows a judicial duel: spear, sword, dagger and wrestling.HEMAGerman School of Fencing1440Wiener Fechtbuch (Cod.11093)Anonymous parchment manuscript from the fourteen-forties, now in Vienna, with illustrated sections on the spear, short sword, dagger, pole weapons, wrestling and mounted fencing.HEMA1443Talhoffer Fechtbuch (MS Chart.A.558)A Gotha manuscript from 1443–1448, attributed to Hans Talhoffer, on the longsword, long shield, short sword, war axe, dagger and wrestling.HEMAGerman School of Fencing1448Talhoffer Fechtbücher (Hans Talhoffer, 1448–1467)Four original illustrated manuscripts by the fencing master Hans Talhoffer, from around 1448–1467, on the sword, dagger, Messer, spear, wrestling and judicial combat.German School of FencingHEMA1460Codex Lew (Cod.I.6.4º.3)Augsburg manuscript from the sixties of the 15th century with glosses on Liechtenauer's verses on the long sword and mounted fencing, plus texts by Huntsfeld, Lignitzer and Otto Jud.German School of FencingHEMA1462Schwabenspiegel Codex (Cgm 558)Munich convolute Cgm 558 with a territorial law, Swiss chronicles and an Alemannic fencing treatise on the sword, dagger and wrestling, linked to Hugo Wittenwiler.HEMA1465Wolfenbüttel Picture Book (Cod.Guelf.78.2 Aug.2º)Anonymous unfinished picture compilation from roughly 1465–1480: longsword, armoured fighting from the Gladiatoria group, wrestling, sword and buckler, and Kyeser's Bellifortis.German School of FencingHEMA1491Codex Speyer (MS M.I.29)Salzburg compilation of Liechtenauer-tradition treatises on the sword, messer, short sword, combat on horseback and wrestling, put together in 1491 by the scribe Hans von Speyer.German School of FencingHEMA1504Codex Ringeck (Mscr.Dresd.C.487)A Dresden manuscript from 1504–1519 with Sigmund Ringeck's gloss on Liechtenauer's verses on the long sword and with texts on the short sword, mounted fencing and wrestling.German School of FencingHEMA1508Glasgow Fechtbuch (MS E.1939.65.341)German fencing manuscript of 1508 in Glasgow Museums, a compilation of masters of the Liechtenauer tradition with the only known illustrated version of Ringeck's gloss.German School of FencingHEMA1512Oplodidaskalia sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri (MS 26-232)A manuscript from Dürer's Nuremberg workshop of around 1512 on wrestling, the sword, dagger, messer and fighting on horseback, now in the Albertina in Vienna.German School of FencingHEMA1535Goliath (MS germ. quart. 2020)Fencing manuscript from Augsburg or Landshut made around 1535–1540, now in Kraków, teaching the Liechtenauer tradition of the sword, dagger, wrestling and fighting on horseback.German School of FencingHEMA1540Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica (Paulus Hector Mair)Illustrated fencing compendium by Augsburg official Paulus Hector Mair from the fifteen-forties, in 16 books, surviving in copies in Dresden, Munich and Vienna.Dussack fencingGerman School of FencingHEMA1545Jörg Breu Draftbook (Cod.I.6.2º.4)Augsburg manuscript from around 1545 with wrestling sections after Gregor Erhart and preparatory sketches by Jörg Breu's workshop for Mair's work on fencing.German School of FencingDussack fencingHEMA1591Das Ander Theil Des Newen Kůnstreichen Fechtbůches (Cod.Guelf.83.4 Aug.8º)Anonymous unfinished manuscript from 1591 in Wolfenbüttel with the teaching of the free fencers on the two-handed sword, halberd, dagger, dussack and wrestling.Dussack fencingHEMA
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1579De Veris Principiis Artis Dimicatoriae (Heinrich von Gunterrodt, 1579)A Neo-Latin treatise by Heinrich von Gunterrodt printed in Wittenberg in 1579, an abridged version of his manuscript Sciomachia et hoplomachia on the theory and history of fencing.Dussack fencingHEMA—Andre Lignitzer – treatises on short sword, sword and buckler, wrestling and daggerFour treatises by Andreas Liegnitzer from the Liechtenauer tradition on the short sword, sword and buckler, wrestling and dagger, the oldest surviving copy dating from 1452.German School of FencingHEMA