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‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan's Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein's Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 609-634, September 2026.
Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
wiley   +1 more source

The Japanization of Karate?: Placing an Intangible Cultural Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Although Okinawa is now under the political administration of Japan, its history has been shaped under the influence of Chinese, Japanese and, most recently, American military domination.
Johnson, Noah C.G.
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‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O'Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 764-780, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

Periods, Pains, Pills, and Performance—Fighting Blood, Bodies and Biology

open access: yesSociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 369-381, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on various data from long‐term immersion in combat sports to explore the period experiences of cis women fighters. We blend theoretical ideas from the social scientific literature on menstruation and the sociology of medicalization, pain and injury.
Reem AlHashmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Martial arts and mental health

open access: yes, 2010
The field of psychotherapy has seen a renaissance of mindfulness, the practice of being in the present moment without judgement. Scientific evidence suggests that mindfulness helps to counter Depression and has a beneficial effect on the brain.
Roberts, Ron, MacQuarie, Julius-Cezar
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Becoming a martial arts researcher: a comparative critical autoethnography of the experiences of two early career researchers [PDF]

open access: yes
[EN] Becoming a martial arts researcher can take many forms. Studies of martial arts occur in a variety of disciplines and academic fields. The positionality of martial arts researchers is singular in that while engaging in rigorous scholarship on ...
Contreras Islas, David Sebastian   +1 more
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Martial Arts by the Book. Late Medieval and Early Modern European Martial Arts

open access: yes, 2018
Historisches Institut, Mittelalterliche ...
Jaquet, Daniel Norbert
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