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THE HISTORY OF FENCING
BY CHESSA KOWNURKO AND IAN MININGER
Earliest Records Carvings in Egypt near 1200 B.C. showed
pictures of sword competitions similar to modern fencingThe competitors wore masks and used safety tip
swordsThere was also evidence
of judgesNot organized enough,
However, to be called
“fencing”
Renaissance
Around the 1400s during the Renaissance swords began being crafter that were lighter and quicker than the bulkier swords of the dark ages
Along with these lighter
swords came more technique
Germany
The German academy St. Mark, also known as Maxbruder, was credited as being the first to try to establish a single, organized way of approaching fencing
German fencing guilds began appearingSuch as the guild shown in this picture, one of the
more famous German guilds “Meyer Freifechter”
Fencing as an Art The first book created on
the topic of fencing was the
Treatise on Weapons It was written by Diego de Valera
somewhere between 1458 and 1471 It has been said that the creation and
emergence of this book marked the birth of fencing as an art
Emergence of the Rapier
In the 1500s the rapier was developed in Spain
It spread to Italy, France, and all over the rest of Europe
It was one of the most popular swords used for self defense and duels
Roughly 40,000 French nobles were killed between 1600 and 1780 due to the effectiveness of the rapier as a weapon
Rapiers
France and Italy Two main fencing schools emerged
The Italian and French schools The French school
Focused itself mostly on academic and Strategic techniques
The Italian schoolEmphasized the importance of physical
strength The two schools became rivals and traces
of the rivalry, though minimal, still remain even today
Emergence of the Foil
The foil became popular in the 1700s The blade of the foil is flexible, blunt
tipped, and thin It is used for practice matches and in
training The foil is one of the main things that
began the usage of fencing as a sport rather than as a form of self defense (what it previously was)
Foils
Fencers in Cyrano’s Time Francesco Antonio Marchelli who lived in Italy around
the time of 1660 was a sword master who created the “Passata Soto”, a famous way to lunge he also wrote "Regole Della Scherma“ which was published in 1686
Camillo Agrippa, who was alive from 1590 to 1650, was an Italian master who wrote the book "Trattato di Scienza d'Arme" in 1568. He also created the four main fencing positions
Andre De Liancour lived somewhere around 1680 in France he wrote the book "Le Maistre d’Armes” in 1686 and also is credited with being one of the first ever to teach the fencing move known as the "coupe"
Modern Fencing
Today, fencing is a combat sport between two people using blunt tipped swords
The official sport is divided
into three weapons The foilThe sabreThe epée
Fencing is even in the
Olympics
epée
sabre
foil
Olympic Fencing
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20 Feb. 2012. <http://library.thinkquest.org/15340/historyessay.html>.
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