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The art of fighting under glass: Review of museum exhibitions displaying fight books, 1968-2017

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.
Jaquet Daniel
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Can We Learn Martial Arts Through Books? The Revival of Korean Fight Books Through Transmission and Reconstruction

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020
Fight books can be defined as texts specialising in the theories of martial arts and the instruction  of techniques (for future generations) based on actual experience of real fighting and training.
Bok Kyu Choi
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Prologues, Poetry, Prose and Portrayals: The Purposes of Fifteenth Century Fight Books According to the Diplomatic Evidence

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
Although by far the most popular use of fifteenth century Fight Books in recent years has been their application to the study of Historical European Martial Arts and interpretations of medieval combat, this manner of learning from them was rarely what ...
Deacon Jacob Henry
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Sword and Buckler in Masorah Figurata

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2021
Two manuscripts produced in early fourteenth-century German lands reflect similar iconography of the fighting with Sword and Buckler; one is the well-known fencing manual, Leeds, Royal Armouries, MS I. 33, produced ca.
Sara Offenberg
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Integration and Rebirth through Confrontation: Fight Club and American Beauty as Contemporary Religious Parables [PDF]

, 2002
In this article, I discuss the religious significance of two recent American films which raise pertinent questions about the nature and quality of human existence, its anxieties and aspirations, at the turn of the millennium.
Christopher Deacy, Deacy, Christopher
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The Fencing Books’ collection of the Festetics family

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2022
The reproductions of the Fencing Books in the library of the Helikon Palace are made available for research purposes by the owner (the Festetics family), according to a research agreement with the Acta Periodica Duellatorum Association (2022).
Mátyás Miskolczy
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Medicine, Logic, or Metaphysics?

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2023
We tend to study fight books in isolation, which explains why it is so difficult to understand the precise place they occupy in the sociocultural and historical fabric of their time. By doing so, we may miss the many clues they contain about their owner,
Karin Verelst
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Cut and paste

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2023
London, British Library Additional MS 39564 is an anonymous collection of English lessons for the two-hand sword, tentatively dated to the first quarter of the sixteenth century.
Mark Geldof
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The Sabre in Spain through Fencing Treatises

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020
The sabre was introduced to Spain and other Hispanic countries from abroad, leading to the establishment of a Spanish sabre school based on the principles of Destreza. Several types of fencing books can be found. There were books on sabre instruction for
Manuel Valle Ortiz
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How Arthurian knights fought : reading late medieval romances with fight books

, 2022
This thesis offers a new and interdisciplinary approach to depictions of fighting in late medieval chivalric romances by combining Arthurian literary studies with the emergent field of Historical European Martial Arts studies.
Bernardazzi, Laura Giorgia
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