Wczesnośredniowieczne hełmy jako uzbrojenie improwizowane w świetle źródeł antropologicznych i historycznych [PDF]
, 2022 The article presents the issue of the prevalence of helmets in the early Middle Ages. The conclusions drawn from the currently available osteological and historical data indicate that peeling the enemy’s head during the fight was a priority target, but ...
Bemke, Grzegorz
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Moving in Late Medieval Harness: Exploration of a Lost Embodied Knowledge [PDF]
, 2018 This video article presents an interdisciplinary approach dealing with the reconstruction of the lost embodied knowledge of wearers of late medieval harnesses.
Daniel Jaquet, Vincent Deluz
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Hand-written fencing manual in the collections of the National Library of Finland [PDF]
, 2018 This article describes the content and historical context of an anonymous hand-written German fencing manual titled Eigentliche Beschreibung des Fechtens ihm einfachen Rappir, dated to 1619. The manuscript is in the collections of the National Library of
Ijäs, Antti
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The Nationalism of Joachim Meyer: An Analysis of German Pride in his Fighting Manual of 1570. [PDF]
, 2011 This work addresses the nationalistic elements in the 1570 work Kunst des Fechtens by Joachim Meyer of Strassburg. Meyer\u27s teachings on the longsword are attached to the Swabian Johannes Liechtenauer and then transferred to the Italian rapier thus ...
Adamson, William Charles
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Conference report - Mixing fencing ground and academic floor: A review of three recent conferences with a focus on Historical European Martial Arts studies [PDF]
, 2016 Jaquet, Daniel
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"Þe herte þe fote þe eye to accorde:" Procedural Writing and Three Middle English Manuscripts of Martial Instruction [PDF]
London's British Library contains three manuscripts that record instruction in the use of personal arms in late medieval Middle English and are the only examples of this genre in English before 1595.
Geldof, Mark
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Wordplay and Swordplay: Camillo Agrippa’s Challenge of Philosophy from the Spirit of Fencing [PDF]
This essay examines the way in which the Milanese architect, engineer and mathema- tician Camillo Agrippa sought to establish the art of fencing as a science with reference to geometry in 1553.
Zittel, Claus
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