A very brief informal history of Medieval Strasbourg

[Ben Floyd]

what does it say at the bottom?

[Roger N]

Roughly translated and with quite a bit of uncertainty due to the poetry and possible slang:

Look at the night raven fighting cyclops (?),
while Bromio (Bacchus/dioynysus) causes disturbance.

Thrust, cut, hit, throw, brave with power,
cleansed like the previous night.

Coincidentally Meyer teaches five stuck for the Rappier against Partizan, as shown in the image, and with almost identical weapons.

Johann Fischart who was the author who added the fechtschule section to Rabelais' Gargantua in the German version of the book, and was born and died in Strasburg, but also studied in Basel, wrote a poem in 1570 criticizing the Catholic Church and particularly about a Jakob Rabe that was also called the Raven (Rabe) and the poem is entitled "Night Raven (Nacht Rab) or Hooded Crow: on the Exceedingly Stupid and Antichristian Life and Writings of Hans Jacob Rooster".

Might just be coincidence, but it is interesting. Could be that the image refers to this somehow. Most likely not though. The Night Raven seems to refer to the town guards.

http://books.google.se/books?id=kRWthlOI_34C&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=Hans+Jacob+Rooster&source=bl&ots=ePNA4QVFcr&sig=73hVsZvKblMfkqjZFSt3DOD0-pg&hl=sv&sa=X&ei=C02sT_P4N_HT4QTqv7THAw&ved=0CFsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Hans%20Jacob%20Rooster&f=false

[Mike Cartier]

Bravo! brother Jeanry Bravo!
I would be happy to host these images on a page somewhere on our site for you along with this article. Let me know.

[Jean Chandler]

Feel free as far as I'm concerned, the images I posted are from Wikimedia commons. Roger can tell you about his if they are ok or whatever.

J

[Roger N]

Honestly I don't know for these images. For most countries those who copy artwork where the original creator no longer has copyrights, there are no copyrights for the copies. Not so for the USA or the UK though, where the first copier owns the rights to both digital and proper copies.

However, as these are copies of prints, I would bet that there are already digital copies distributed for free download already. I can search and see what I find.

The Stimmer "Big Shooting" can be found here: http://www.art-wallpaper.com/22807/Stimmer+Tobias/The+big+shooting+at+Strasbourg?Width=1600&Height=1200

[Roger N]

Just realized that the Heyden images are from the British Museum and although they allow you to print them in limited 4000 runs of books and other media, it is not allowed to spread them in digital form. It might be worth it to ask though, since they do seek to promote research and work for educational purposes.