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The sabre in 19th century Greece
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020 This article gives a brief overview on Greek sabre sources with a special focus on Philipp Müller’s and Nikolaos Pyrgos’ treatises. The article does not aim to give a complete list of treatises neither to analyze the any of the mentioned books in details
George Zacharopoulos
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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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History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 86-104, December 2023., 2023 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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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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Low cost fencing material for a pre-school in Lavender Hill [PDF]
, 2011 This project has been proposed by the UCT Knowledge Partnership Project. This institution is aimed at providing assistance to under-privileged communities in the Western Cape. A pre-school fence material which is low cost is to be investigated.
Mazwai, Konke
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Money and federal autocracy: 1913 and the quiet inversion of the American constitutional order
Economic Affairs, EarlyView.Abstract The American Revolution affirmed that sovereignty inheres by nature in each Citizen, and collectively in the People. The Constitution completed a structure in which authority flowed from Citizens to their several State republics, and from the States to a Union holding only delegated powers. 1913 inverted that order.
James Turk
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The Contribution of Domestic and International Conflict In Renaissance Italy to the Sport of Fencing [PDF]
, 2023 Fencing, the art or practice of attack and defense with the foil, épée, or saber, has progressed over hundreds of years from the warfare of Germanic tribes to a regulated Olympic sport.
Nason, Amelia E
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