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The medieval fencing manual is a valuable if little-studied source of information on the injuries likely to be caused in medieval combat since it provides instruction on techniques to be used with a wide variety of weapons, including the sword, as well as in unarmed combat. The majority of such texts date to the early fifteenth century and later, and (with one exception) the earliest extant fencing manuals of medieval Europe all come from the German-speaking region.1 Of these German manuals, all but one draw directly or indirectly on the fourteenth-century teachings of Johannes Liechtenauer.2 Although no direct written record of Liechtenauer’s fencing system exists, his influence on the development of medieval German fencing cannot be overstated;3 his

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5 “…Vnnd schüß im vnder dem schwert den ort lang ein zů der brust”: The Placement and Consequences of Sword-blows in Sigmund Ringeck’s Fifteenth-Century Fencing Manual