If you are a podcast fan or want to try it, the Nota Bene podcast is available on all platforms! To find out more, click here: https://www.notabenemovies.com/podcasts/ Very often in our History, people have beaten each other up. This is nothing new, but some people in Europe started writing texts on the most correct and effective way to fight during the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, because after all, fighting is good, but doing it correctly or even with class is better. These texts are called Combat Books. For two decades now, thanks in particular to the ever-increasing popularity of the practice of historical European martial arts, HEMA, we can all now discover these texts written half a millennium ago by masters of arms who wanted to pass on their martial knowledge in a way other than oral transmission. Today, we are going to discover what these texts are, who wrote them, and especially why? ???? Writing: Benjamin Brillaud and Benjamin Pascal / Entrer En Lice Discover Benjamin's channel, Entrer En Lice right here: / entrerenlice ???? Editing: Dead Will / Wilfried Kaiser / deadwill ➤ Find our episode on HEMA: • European Historical Martial Arts... ➤ Discover our interview with Pierre-Alexandre Chaize, also on this subject: • How did we fight at the end of the Middle... Summary: 0:00: Nota Bene Podcast 0:33: Introduction 1:28: What is a combat book? 3:06: By whom, for whom, and for what? 9:11: The context and the teaching of the fights 14:40: Liber Der Arte Dimicatoria 15:39: Conclusion ——————————————————————————————————————————————— ➤➤➤ Sources at the end of the description ——————————————————————————————————————————————— ????To subscribe and support my channel???? / @notabenemovies ????Nota Bonus channel???? / @notabonus ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— ????Discover my online store???? ➜ https://nota-bene.creator-spring.com/ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— ????You can buy my books by following this link ???? ➜ https://www.notabenemovies.com/ouvrages/ ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— ????Join me on social media!???? ➜ Twitch: / notabenemovies ➜ Facebook: / notabenemovies ➜ Twitter: / notabenemovies ➜ Instagram: / notabenemovies ➜ TikTok: / notabenemovies ➜ Tipeee: https://www.tipeee.com/nota-bene ➜ Website: https://www.notabenemovies.com/ ➜ Podcast: https://www.notabenemovies.com/podcasts/ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— ➤➤➤ To find out more (All the combat manuscripts cited are available digitally on the wiktenauer site): ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Compilation and trans. versions of the Fior di Battaglia from Fiore dei Liberi, 1400 - 1410, by Benjamin Conan, 2012 - 2014 Experimenting with the handling of weapons in the late Middle Ages, Daniel Jacquet and co. 2016 The chivalrous art of combat: the handling of weapons through combat books (14th - 16th century), Daniel Jacquet and co. 2013 The Book of the Art of Combat, Franck Cinato and Andre Surprenant, 2012 The Trades and Corporations of the City of Paris, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, Henri de Lespinasse, 1866, vol. 1, p. 95 Joachim Meyer, free fencer, bourgeois of Strasbourg (1537? - 1571). In Masters and techniques of combat. Dupuis Olivier, Dijon: AEDEH, 2006 No weapons and weapons grips in knightly training in the 15th century, example of Jacques de Lalaing, Loïs Forster