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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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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.
Chassica Kirchhoff
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Fight books in comparative perspective. An introduction
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020 From the famous wrestling scenes of the Beni Hasan cemetery in Egypt to self-defence manuals of the globalised martial arts world of the twenty-first century: the depiction and description of body techniques of combat is a phenomenon that can be ...
Daniel Jaquet, Sixt Wetzler
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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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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 +1 more
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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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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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