Fight Books in Comparative Perspective: The Fight Book of Hugold Behr (Prof. Dr. Matthias J. Bauer)

The third talk of the conference “Fight Books in Comparative Perspective“, held by Prof. Dr. Matthias Johannes Bauer on the topic “The Fight Book of Hugold Behr. A late 16th century fight book in comparative perspective“. The conference was held at Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen, the German Blade Museum, 09./10. NOV 2017. It tried to develop a multi-layered perspective on the worldwide phenomenon of the “fight book“, i.e., texts (and images) created for the transmission of martial knowledge. The conferen