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At the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, some authors of the fight books, or those involved in copying or rewriting existing content about fighting techniques used scholastic concepts either explicitly or implicitly.
Daniel Jaquet
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Technical elements in Hungarian sabre fencing manuals
This research aims to collect technical elements identified in Hungarian sabre manuals. At the current stage of research they were assembled in a table, creating a map of elements. The research itself is in an initial phase, this research note is here to
Mátyás Miskolczi
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Twenty-six years after the first edition and translation by Sydney Anglo in 1991 of the anonymous manuscript Le Jeu de la hache , many elements can still be significantly improved.
Olivier Dupuis, Vincent Deluz
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Le Jeu de la Hache: A Critical edition and dating discussion
Twenty-six years after the first edition and translation by Sydney Anglo in 1991 of the anonymous manuscript Le Jeu de la hache , many elements can still be significantly improved.
Dupuis Olivier, Deluz Vincent
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Libro del exercicio de las armas: A New Pietro Monte Manuscript
The works of Pietro Monte had been forgotten for many centuries, and only recently have their merits been recognised again. This research note presents a newly discovered manuscript, the Libro del exercicio de las armas, a 19th century copy of the ...
Ortiz Manuel Valle
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“Your Kung Fu is very good, Master Fiore!” Asian and European fight books in comparison
The phenomenon of the fight book is not restricted to the European tradition. Similar artefacts, usually combining text and image to describe the techniques of close quarter combat with and without weapons, exist also in various Asian cultures, in China,
Wetzler Sixt
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Finding justice in the food movements
First paragraph: Justin Sean Myers’ Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn documents the emergence and development of urban agriculture in East New York.
Xiaoya Yuan
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Editors’ Introduction: The Book, the Conference and Fighting Back [PDF]
Abstract This chapter introduces the book through discussing the context in which it came about, namely a conference to mark the centenary of the publication of Dewey’s Democracy and Education. The first section relates to the book’s subtitle by describing and analysing the context in which speakers at the conference engaged in a ...
Heilbronn, R, Doddington, C, Higham, RJE
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The sixteenth-century Collectanea of the condottiero Pietro Monte contains some of the most thorough writings that exist pertaining to the use of staff weapons.
Deacon Jacob Henry +1 more
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