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The arts of fighting and of scholastic dispute: two types of duels at the end of the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2023
Fencing and the art of combat in general can bring you to think of an argument, a serious conversation between two individuals or two groups. Conversely, intellectual disputes and discursive exchanges can be compared to actual duels with the difference ...
Pierre-Henry Bas
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HISTORIOGRAFIE VE VLEKU POLITIKY DĚJIN: PŘÍPAD ŠTEFÁNIKOVSKÉ LEGENDY ĽUDOVÍTA HOLOTÍKA [PDF]

Historický Časopis, 2022
HÁLEK, Jan. Historiography in the Wake of the Politics of History: the case of Ľudovít Holotík’s book Štefánikovská legenda. Historický časopis, 2022, 70, 1, pp. 115–142, Bratislava.
Jan Hálek
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A new manuscript of Joachim Meyer (1561)

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2021
The manuscript of Joachim Meyer dated 1561 kept in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, was ignored by specialised bibliographical works on fencing and absent of the secondary literature about fight books.
Olivier Dupuis
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The Art of Caucaseco: An Afro-Colombian Fight Book

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020
While most fight books were presumably written by elites or socially-honoured martial classes, this article will explore a fight book of an Afro-Colombian martial arts style that emerged just six years after the abolition of slavery.
T.J. Desch-Obi
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A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020
The fifteenth-century fight book author Filippo Vadi wrote that the sword “is a cross and a royal weapon”: this inherent chivalric symbolism associated with the sword has led to a wealth of scholarship on the weapon but seemingly at a cost to research ...
Iason Eleftherios Tzouriadis, Jacob Deacon   +1 more
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The Fight Book of Hugold Behr: A Late Sixteenth-Century Fight Book in Comparative Perspective

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020
Little is known about the undated and presumably anonymous fight book which was once owned by Hugold Behr the Elder (sixteenth century), Rostock UB Mss. Var. 83.
Matthias Johannes Bauer
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Book Review: Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future by Ben Tarnoff

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2023
This article reviews the book Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future by Ben Tarnoff.
Eduardo Maia
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A Critical Recognition of the A Philosophy of War from Moseley’s View [PDF]

پژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2020
Addressing the issue of the philosophy of war difficult. In other words, the relationship between Philosophy and war seems to be a difficult one. Alexander Moseley is a Political Philosophy Editor for the IEP (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and he ...
Mohammad Reza Ahmadi Tabatabai
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The art of fighting under glass

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2018
A growing body of research on fight books and historical European martial arts has appeared in academic circles over the last fifteen years. It has also broken through the doors of patrimonial institutions.
Daniel Jaquet
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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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