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Thanks for the reply, and my compliments, that you did schlager fencing! The schlager-fencing still exists today, although it changed a lot since the pre WWI times. In the southern regions, and especially in Austria, they even still do saber-fencing. The movie 'The Duellists' was a great...

Thanks for the article! I especially liked the detailed explanation of the gentlemens honour system, compared to the vendetta. Core feature of the honourcode was the right to duel. This right only applies to members of this 'gentlemen's circle', so in the example you gave with the stolen...

I am a regular follower of the escapist for several years now. I even recommend it to a lot of other people, since part of my work and art deals with the critical examination of 'games'. Now I finally signed up and made an account, just to be able to comment on this video. So Jim, you...