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Fencing appeared in the early Bronze Age and, together with javelin throw represents the oldest armed combat skill. The roots of the western fencing come from Crete-Mycenaean technique of the two rapiers combat, and it was developed in the first Roman fencing schools. In the Middle Ages, when the knight codex’s ordered that each knight should take over the seven knight skills (septum Ares prostatism) among which fencing was the most important and honored, fencing flourished. In the epoch of a thousand schools, which began with the European Renaissance, and lasted until the First World War it bloomed and flourished. During that period fencing was an everyday part of life for millions of people, an activity of a thousand fencing schools, a compulsory subject for all military and dramatic academies an unavoidable skill in the civil and court education. The fencing skill did not have only combat purpose the necessary skill in war and duel, but it was also a question of prestige and competition, an unavoidable theme and amusement for lots of fencing schools in peace, generations and whole nations. |
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