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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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Sword and Buckler in Masorah Figurata
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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Limits of Understanding in the Study of Lost Martial Arts
The paper is organised around the notion of embodied technique. The recent attempts to formulate scientific methodologies for the reconstruction of medieval fighting techniques based on a study of premodern fight books raise questions about the ...
Burkart Eric
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Economising Early Prints on Fight Books by Multiple Using Movable Half Page Woodcuts.
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Bauer Matthias Johannes
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The Fundamental Concept of Islamic Education Perspective K.H. Hasyim Asy'ari
The basic concept of Islamic education has emerged along with the emergence of Islam in the world. The Qur'an as a source of knowledge became a different motivator for Muslim intellectuals in the Middle age, so Islam developed rapidly in the century ...
Jihan Jihan +2 more
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The Art of Caucaseco: An Afro-Colombian Fight Book
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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The collection of Lew the Jew in the lineage of German Fight Books corpus
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Jaquet Daniel
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Designing a Comprehensive Model for Anti-Corruption Based on the Native Environment in Iran [PDF]
Extended Abstract Abstract Many countries and international organizations like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, while providing prescriptions, impose structural changes. But what is Iranian model for the fight against corruption?
Saeed Zarandi, Reza Vaezi
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Tambov Governorate Library and the development of librarianship in Tambov in 1920–1937
We consider the stage of development of library business in the Tambov region during the formation of Soviet power. We describe the systematization in the funds of state and trade union libraries of books nationalized from private collections, the ...
R. M. Zhitin +2 more
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“Banned Books Behind Bars” is a social justice project that aims to shed light on the complex problem of information access in prison and to explore potential prototypes for possible solutions to some of these obstacles, in particular access to books and
Kate Cauley
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