Insights from Historical Artwork

A excellent example of both a back guard (Nebenhut or Coda Longa) and a high outside guard (Vom Tag / Posta di Donna). Below are two wrestlers. From a 15th century illumination from Le Grant's Livre de Bonnes Moeurs.

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