Paulus Hector Mair Exotica

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Weapon Forms: Scythe, Sickle, Flail, Cudgel, Duelling Shield.

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Paulus Hector Mair (1517--1579) was an Augsburg civil servant, and active in the martial arts of his time. He collected Fechtbücher and undertook to compile all knowledge of the art of fencing in a compendium surpassing all earlier books. For this, he engaged the painter Jörg Breu the Younger, as well as two experienced fencers, whom he charged with perfecting the techniques before they were painted. The project was very costly, taking full four years, and according to Mair, consumed most of his family's income and property. Three versions of his compilation, and one later, less extensive manuscript, have been preserved.

Not only did Mair spend huge sums on his collections and on his projects, he also had a very expensive lifestyle, frequently hosting receptions for the more important burghers of Augsburg. His own income was not sufficient for this, and during many years, he misappropriated funds from the city treasury, with the supervision of which he had been entrusted since 1541. His embezzlements were discovered in 1579, and Mair was hanged as a thief at the age of 62.

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• Paulus
• Mair
• WMA
• HES
• Longsword
• western
• martial
• arts
• medieval
• combat
• Fechtbuch
• manual
• manuscript
• scythe
• sickle
• flail
• cudgel
• duelling
• shield

[TheGekkjevel]

The one at 0:49 looks kind of painfull..

[Djemps]

@TheGekkjevel Only 'kind of' painful? LOL

[anAngryHamster]

Can you really classify a cudgel as exotic? It's a stick, a universal weapon.

[Djemps]

@anAngryHamster I goofed up with the name. It was called a 'Peasant Staff', and was an uprooted sapling. Still pretty basic, but certainly not the first thing you would grab to settle a fight.

[pochazet]

are these pictures in his polearms book?

[Djemps]

@pochazet Sadly, no.

[winged789]

Now now, you know that is not fair. N o one is saying westerners are better at everything, for example the shoalin where almost certainly living longer due to healthy lifestly than their western counterparts. All I'm saying is to give the knight some credit before declairing the shaolin superior.

[fabioeoch]

I had no idea such shields existed!

[DeathWishMonkey]

Those longswords at 2:27 are very interesting. Are you aware of any historical longsword specimen that had spiked hilt and quillions?

[apt95]

sickle, but no hammer? how sad.

[mojothemigo]

@schizoidboy Sometimes, at some places. They were usually so expensive, knights didn't have to worry as much about them. You might have a lower class person with a sword, but a knight has armor, a horse, etc. This is what I have read, and I give it a high chance of being off. I also read that peasents with crossbows and guns were a much bigger concern and more likely to be banned, as they could take down an armored knight on horseback.

[eacortes]

I've never before seen or heard of dueling shields. Those things look very nasty and practical for close melee combat.

[obermegalutschoar]

Medieval illustrations of dudes in pyjamas beating each other with farming equipment. Now I've seen everything.

[tallswede80]

@Galaktia

Horseshit. Races work completely differently. It's what you don't see that makes all the difference, i.e. how the brain works, and the soul.

[1NX9]

Nice!