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This tickles beyond all measure: an expanded version of Henning’s Hieb-Fechten in Add MS 17533
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2019 Erhardus Henning’s work on Hieb-Fechten is one of only a few 17th century German fencing treatises describing cut-based fencing. An expanded version of this text, containing a larger collection of lessons, can be found in British Library Add MS 17533 fol.
van Noort Reinier
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La Noble Science des Joueurs d’Espée: Fight Book and Commercial Product
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020 La Noble Science des Joueurs d’Espée (originally La Noble Science des Ioueurs Despee) is a fight book printed in 1538 by Willem Vorsterman, a local printer in Antwerp.
Mathijs Roelofsen
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Shagi / Steps, 2022 The publication contains the first Russian translation of the Renaissance treatise “On the Philosophy of Arms and its Mastership” by Jerónimo de Carranza. This treatise is considered to be a starting point of a new trend in European theory of fencing combat that was named Destreza (the word meaning “mastership, art”).
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Fighting in women’s clothes The pictorial evidence of Walpurgis in Ms. I.33
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2017 Ms. I.33 is not only the oldest of the known fencing treatises in European context, it is also the only one showing a woman fighting equally with contemporary men.
Gräf Julia
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Martial Arts Studies, 2023 The 16th century Chinese fight book Jian Jing 劍經 (Sword Treatise), written by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) general Yu Dayou 俞大猷, is the oldest available comprehensive work on Chinese fencing theory. This paper argues that the treatise uses the terms gang 剛 (hard) and rou 柔 (soft) as technical terms to label tactics what are known as first and second ...
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The reconfiguration of Natura and Ars in cartesian rhetoric and the epistemological reflections in the prize questions of the french academies [PDF]
, 2018 This article discusses the change in the relationship between natura and ars that occurred when Cartesian language theories penetrated conceptions of rhetoric in France during the 17th century.
Urmann, Martin
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‘The Military Mirror of Kai’: Swordsmanship and a Medieval Text in Early Modern Japan [PDF]
, 2014 Swordsmanship emerged as a new field of knowledge in early modern Japan (1600–1868), a time of relative peace. During the most violent periods of Japanese history, the latter half of the medieval period (1185–1600), samurai conducted warfare mostly on ...
Wert, Michael
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, 1989 This working paper is a draft of the first three chapters of a biography of Thomas, 5th Baron, 1st Earl, and 1st Marquess of Wharton (1648-1715). It traces the development of young Thomas (Tom to his family and eventually to the political world of ...
Clark, J. Kent
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Boundary disputes - a clash of wills or a Shakespearean tragedy? [PDF]
, 2011 Boundary disputes between adjoining owners and the issue of boundary repair and resolution have been the subject of dissertations for doctorates’ in philosophy to social commentary by Shakespeare.
Simmons, Shane
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Identifying evolution in a fencing lineage through successive written works [PDF]
Even a superficial study of fencing treatises published at different times will readily show that the art of fencing constantly changes with time. However, while large differences between separate treatises are easily identified, pinpointing how these ...
van Noort, Reinier
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