Fencing by the Book

This episode continues our discussion on winding, now also with Jess' input. 

 

Of course, Jess brings the medieval hunting uses of winden...

In this episode we look at lines 102-109 on winding.

 

Winding is a pretty big deal in Liechtenauer's text, so we spend a while unpacking the word so that it becomes more than magical woo. Wind, turn, coil, spool and twist all get suggested.

 

We discuss how if 'aus winden' is a thing then it's the opposite of how modern HEMAists use it. And we get stuck on the difference between winden and wenden.

 

 

In this episode we look at lines 96-101 on hanging and sprechfenster.

 

Mike S also does his best to drag cricket into every conversation like a knock off Andy Zaltzmann. 

 

Steve put together a document of all the use cases here.

Michael Chidester's Patreon.

A cool talk about non-destructive pigment ID in MSs.

Textual evidence that sprechfenster and sprechfenster aren't the same thing.

Later, alternative understandings of sprechfenster.