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Are there any sources which talk about the experience of attending a 15th/16th century fencing school?
I'm interested to know of any material which describes the experience of being a student at a medieval period fencing school e.g. once which may have been run by a Master teaching in the Lichtenauer ...
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Were Shakespeare's plays written for "high culture" or "entertain the bawdy masses" during his time?
Currently, the plays of William Shakespeare are viewed as great English literature, and viewed as "high culture". However I heard someone say that Shakespeare was writing "bawdy, violence filled plays ...
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