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Visualizing the Fight Book Tradition: Collected Martial Knowledge in the Thun-Hohenstein Album
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.
Kirchhoff Chassica
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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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Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2021 The article discusses the “self-defense” techniques presented in fightbooks and treaties. The objective is to determine if these techniques take the reality of fight in account, to evaluate the difference between theory and practice in remaining safe ...
Pierre-Henry Bas
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The Sword Exercises of the British Cavalry: 1796-1858
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020 From the late eighteenth century the British military produced official ‘fight books’ outlining the methods with which the cavalry were to use their swords.
Henry Yallop
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Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2023 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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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, 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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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 ...
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“Your Kung Fu is very good, Master Fiore!” Asian and European fight books in comparison
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2016 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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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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