A recent find supplements our understanding of late 17th-century fencing practice in the Franco-Germanic cultural sphere.
—by J. Christoph Amberger
The identity of the author, Lieut. Johann(es) Schalch, remains elusive: While he may be related to the 18th-century Swiss painter by the same name, thus far, no additional biographical information has been located to properly place him in a more detailed historical context.
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