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Fighting in women’s clothes The pictorial evidence of Walpurgis in Ms. I.33
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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La Noble Science des Joueurs d’Espée: Fight Book and Commercial Product
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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«Il Fior di Battaglia» symbols: iconography of early XV century fencing treatise by Fiore dei Liberi
Purpose. This article's purpose is the reconstruction of the creation context of the fencing treatise «The Flower of Battle» and renew some fragments from the Italian fencing master's life in the late 14th century - early 15th centuries with visual sources. Methods.
Палій, Людмила
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Demography and Population Dynamics of a Small Mammal Assemblage in Chilean Semiarid Thorn-Scrub Habitat: A 30-Year Study. [PDF]
Using the longest and most comprehensive demographic database available in temperate South America, we characterize the population dynamics of an entire community of small mammals in a semiarid environment in north‐central Chile using a superpopulation CMR modeling framework.
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ABSTRACT In addition to being heinous crimes, acts of terrorism are complex chronopolitical events. Perpetrators, victims, survivors, families, and authorities manage their relationship to the events by engaging with and giving shape to time, or, rather, to a plurality of times.
Helge Jordheim
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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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“A hitherto unheard‐of and harmful thing”: Breastfeeding and Violence in Russian Literature
Abstract This article examines the construction of maternal subjectivity in the context of breastfeeding narratives in Russian literature, from the early 1800s to the 1920s. It draws on historical and contemporary socio‐economic contexts, in Russia and the West, to support its major contention that, in literature, breastfeeding and violence are ...
Muireann Maguire
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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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Testing machine learning systems in real estate
Abstract Uncertainty about the inner workings of machine learning (ML) models holds back the application of ML‐enabled systems in real estate markets. How do ML models arrive at their estimates? Given the lack of model transparency, how can practitioners guarantee that ML systems do not run afoul of the law?
Wayne Xinwei Wan, Thies Lindenthal
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The Martial Arts of Medieval Europe [PDF]
During the late Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, fighting books—Fechtbücher—were produced in northern Italy, among the German states, in Burgundy, and on the Iberian peninsula.
Price, Brian R.
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