3. The Longsword and the Fight Books
Indes: Middle High German, 'meanwhile', the instant when the blades touch and you feel which way the other will move. Strasbourg, spring 1570: a cutler's apprentice watches his master's fencing book arrive from the printer, and we go back two hundred years to a master no one ever saw... Inside: the Ox, the Plough, the Fool and the Roof, the Wrath Cut, a lynx with compasses and an elephant with a castle, a duel between a man in a pit and a woman with a stone, a priest's long knife, blood on the scalp at the Frankfurt fair, and a city treasurer hanged for his fencing books. Johannes…
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