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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. The small booklet shows how to fight with rapier and dagger, a combat system which was relatively new in Germany. Its author – an anonymous German fencer who had presumably journeyed to Venice
Matthias Johannes Bauer
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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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Visualizing the Fight Book Tradition

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2018
The Thun-Hohenstein album, long-known as the Thun’sche Skizzenbuch, is a bound collection of 112 drawings that visualize armoured figures at rest and in combat, as well as empty armours arrayed in pieces. The collection gathers drawings that span the period from the 1470s to around 1590.
Chassica Kirchhoff
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European Fight Books 1305-1630: Classification, typology and comparison between manuscripts and prints

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020
No bibliometric or analytic studies of the fight books have been conducted and few reference publications offer analyses of the genre as a whole. Moreover, the existing bibliographies all have their own limitations and do not allow for an investigation ...
Daniel Jaquet
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Book review - Late medieval and early modern fight books [PDF]

Martial Arts Studies, 2018
Stepp, Russell Alexander
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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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Book Review – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

M@n@gement, 2021
Surveillance capitalists like Google and Amazon will do whatever they can to corner supply routes to data about us and our actions. In Zuboff’s lengthy book The age of surveillance capitalism, we learn about the strategic and often underhand means by ...
Ella Hafermalz
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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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