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Prologues, Poetry, Prose and Portrayals: The Purposes of Fifteenth Century Fight Books According to the Diplomatic Evidence

open access: yesActa 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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The Hanging Guard: William Hope’s (1660-1724) Invention of Self-defence and the Spirit of Enlightenment

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2020
Fight books can be much more than repositories of knowledge or cornerstones of tradition. In some cases they may also reflect fundamental changes in the intellectual and social life of a society and even attempt to change the latter for the better.
Alexander Will
doaj   +1 more source

Ius in Bello under Islamic International Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In 1966, Judge Jessup of the International Court of Justice pointed out that the appearance of an English translation of the teaching on the ‘Islamic law of nations’ of an eighth-century Islamic jurist (Shaybānī) is particularly timely and of so much ...
Badar, Mohamed
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Reaching Excellence: Staff Weapon Typologies, Contexts, and Fighting Techniques in the Collectanea of Pietro Monte

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

Sword and Buckler in Masorah Figurata

open access: yesActa 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
doaj   +1 more source

Editors’ Introduction: The Book, the Conference and Fighting Back [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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
openaire   +2 more sources

The Role of Realism and Idealism in Decision-Making: A Case Study of Tolkien’s and Jackson’s Ents and Elves [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Attempting to fight Sauron without the Ring of Power is, of course, fruitless. Nearly all the characters in the Lord of the Rings understand this. While many readers debate the reasoning and logic behind sending Frodo and Sam alone into Mordor, few ...
Bertelotti, Max
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in Uremic Toxins From 1991 to 2024

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Uremic toxins are a growing area of research in nephrology, with significant implications in the progression and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the management of end‐stage kidney disease (ESKD). This bibliometric analysis aims to evaluate the global research trends, key contributors, and the impact of publications in ...
Yuh‐Shan Ho   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Limits of Understanding in the Study of Lost Martial Arts

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
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
doaj   +3 more sources

A Perspective on Interactive Theorem Provers in Physics

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Into an interactive theorem provers (ITPs), one can write mathematical definitions, theorems and proofs, and the correctness of those results is automatically checked. This perspective goes over the best usage of ITPs within physics and motivates the open‐source community run project PhysLean, the aim of which is to be a library for digitalized physics
Joseph Tooby‐Smith
wiley   +1 more source

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