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Getting Punchy – Fist-Fighting, Wrestling and Fight-Books
by Jeffrey Hull

Often and somewhat understandably, one may find this kind of question at various forums for Medieval and Renaissance German Kunst des Fechtens (art of fighting / martial arts): Why are the knights in the fight-books never fist-fighting but instead wrestling?

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