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The Kölner Fechtbuch: Context and Comparison [PDF]

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2021
The Kölner Fechtbuch is a fascinating, unique treatise from the 16th century. Although it is tempting to compare it with the Liechtenauer tradition and to use knowledge, ideas and concepts from that tradition to interpret this book, this article shows ...
Keith Farrell
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Book review: Das Tower Fechtbuch

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2021
no abstract by book ...
Cornelius Berthold
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Investigation on the collation of the first Fight book (Leeds, Royal Armouries, Ms I.33) [PDF]

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
This paper investigates the collation of the first Fight Book, the Leeds, Royal Armouries, Ms I.33. It critically reviews previous hypotheses about the composition of the quires and the identification of the material lacuna, and proposes a new hypothesis.
Fanny Binard, Daniel Jaquet
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Visualizing the Fight Book Tradition: Collected Martial Knowledge in the Thun-Hohenstein Album [PDF]

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2018
The Thun-Hohenstein album, long-known as the Thun’sche Skizzenbuch, is a bound collection of 112 drawings that visualize armoured figures at rest and in combat, as well as empty armours arrayed in pieces.
Kirchhoff Chassica
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Das Fechtbuch [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Untersuchungen zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der bildkünstlerischen Darstellung der Fechtkunst in den Fechtbüchern des mediterranen und westeuropäischen Raumes vom Mittelalter bis Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts.
Bodemer, Heidemarie
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A Long Time Ago in a Library Far, Far Away ... The Adventures of the Gladiatoria Manuscript from New Haven

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2015
In this paper I will describe the adventurous history of an important late medieval German fechtbuch—a fighting manual—that belongs to a number of manuscripts known as the Gladiatoria group.
Hagedorn Dierk
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The Cutting Edge in Print: Images and the Discerning Mind in Achille Marozzo’s Opera nova (1536) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This article explores how Scholastic notions of the body, mind and cognition inform the didactic principles structuring the Opera nova (1536) by Achille Marozzo (1484-1553). A Bolognese fencing master, Marozzo belonged to a tradition of institutionalized
Pietersma, Miente
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The Fencing Books’ collection of the Festetics family [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The reproductions of the Fencing Books in the library of the Helikon Palace are made available for research purposes by the owner (the Festetics family), according to a research agreement with the Acta Periodica Duellatorum Association (2022).
Miskolczy, Mátyás
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