The video-book combines two products: an e-book with Ringeck's gloss on Liechtenauer's Zettel, and a playlist of 118 videos filmed directly from its content, play by play. It covers the longsword and the sword-and-buckler sections of the Dresden manuscript Mscr. Dresd. C 487. You read what the source says and see at once what it looks like — two weapons, one linked package.
Sigmund Ringeck's gloss is the classic key to Liechtenauer's Zettel. The verse on its own is sealed shut: a mnemonic written for people who already knew the art, useless to anyone approaching it cold. Ringeck's commentary is the text that opens it — what each technique means, when it is used, and how the opponent answers it. It has been read for generations as the first step into the tradition.
This video-book covers two weapons from the Dresden manuscript Mscr. Dresd. C 487: the longsword and the sword and buckler.
How the video-book works
The video-book is two separate products and the link between them. The e-book carries the text; a playlist of 118 videos shows it performed. The videos are not a loose extra — their content follows the text of the book, section by section and play by play, so that for every passage you know what it actually looks like. That count is the point: the coverage goes down to the level of the individual play, not a handful of overview clips.
That link is the real value. A fencing source describes movement in words that made sense to people who already knew the movement. The modern reader comes at it the other way round: text first, movement afterwards — and usually a great deal of time spent guessing what it was meant to look like. Ringeck is terser than most; a single line can carry an entire action. The video-book cuts that step short. You are not left to work out your own reading of the old masters' instructions; you have the text and its performance side by side.
What the video-book contains
Two weapons in one package
The sword and buckler is not an appendix to the longsword material — it is where the same principles are worked out with a second hand occupied and a shorter blade. Having both in one place lets you see what carries across from one weapon to the other and what does not.
Who it is for
For anyone learning the Liechtenauer longsword from the source who wants a reliable text to build on and a worked-through performance to check it against. And for instructors who need both the wording and the demonstration in one place when building a lesson.
Scope
This edition covers the longsword and sword-and-buckler sections of the manuscript. The remaining parts of the codex are available in the Czech edition, which presents the manuscript in full.
The video-book is not a substitute for training or for an instructor's guidance. The performances follow the reading given in the text; where the source admits of more than one interpretation, this is stated.
Videobook Sigmund Ringeck Longsword and sword and buckler EN
118,00 €
