Living Meyer

THE ART OF HISTORICAL FENCING

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Research, articles, and training material from Living Meyer and the Meyer Freifechter Guild.

01 / THE LIBRARY

Two decades
of writing

Living Meyer and the Meyer Freifechter Guild have been writing about this art for a long time: studies of the fechtschule, of Meyer’s life and work, of the longsword, dusack, rapier, and staff, and of the guilds and cities that shaped them.

That library is being gathered here. Articles will appear as they are reviewed, credited to their authors and linked to the passages and plates they discuss.

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02 / COMING HERE

Reviewed and
republished

Piece by piece, each article is checked against its sources before it is published here. Among the first in line are the studies of the fechtschule, the life and work of Joachim Meyer, and the longsword introduction.

A glossary of Meyer’s terms, with the German, the English choices we use, and the reasoning behind them, is in preparation alongside the translations.

03 / THE PLATES

The 1570
woodcuts

Meyer’s book is illustrated with woodcut plates: pairs of fencers, but also the halls, streets, and onlookers around them. An annotated, figure-by-figure edition of the plates is planned for this site.

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