Joachim Meyer

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Joachim Meyer's Fechtbuch represents one of the major inspirations for Renaissance martial arts practice. Meyer was a professional master-at-arms of the Strasburg Marxbrueder fighting guild whose important work, Kunst der fechtens ("Art of Fighting") was produced in 1570. His stunning work, "A Thorough Description of the Free Knightly and Noble Art of Fencing", focused on the entire arsenal of weapons: lance, short sword & dagger, Dusack, long & short staffs, pole-arms, flail, and wrestling. While the architecture and backgrounds of the woodcuts are fictional, the figures are literal. Meyer also included a section on the new rapier & dagger largely compiled from Italian works such as Viggiani and Di Grassi. Meyer's work influenced and inspired many later instructors.