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Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia [PDF]
, 2022 This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China.
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The Cutting Edge in Print: Images and the Discerning Mind in Achille Marozzo’s Opera nova (1536) [PDF]
, 2023 This article explores how Scholastic notions of the body, mind and cognition inform the didactic principles structuring the Opera nova (1536) by Achille Marozzo (1484-1553). A Bolognese fencing master, Marozzo belonged to a tradition of institutionalized
Pietersma, Miente
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The Siete Partidas: A Repository of Mediaeval Military and Tactical Instruction [PDF]
, 2021 The Siete Partidas, compiled in the mid-13th century for the Castilian king Alfonso X el Sabio, constituted the code of law for Castile and later Spain. Despite the practicality of their instructions and principles on warfare, they are not well ...
Gassmann, Jürg
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Terebovlia as the Location for the Polish Troops’ Stay in 1557 and 1558 [PDF]
, 2022 In 1557 and 1558, Terebovlia was the place of the stay of the Polish army, whose task was to defend the Ruthenian lands of the Kingdom of Poland against the Tatar invasions.
Grabarczyk, Tadeusz
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Meanders of the Polish Military Revolution — Standardization of Cavalry Units [PDF]
, 2021 The objective of the article is to show the phenomenon of the internal standardization of the units of the Polish cavalry in the 16th century. The references to this process, during which the diversisty of arms and equipment of soldiers was abandoned ...
Boldyrew, Aleksander, Łopatecki, Karol
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, 2021 In The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe, Aleksander Paroń offers a reflection on the history of the Pechenegs, a nomadic people which came to control the Black Sea steppe by the end of the ninth century ...
Paroń, Aleksander
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Liegnitzer, Hundsfeld or Lew? The question of authorship of popular Medieval fighting teachings [PDF]
, 2014 In numerous 15th and 16th century Fightbooks several sets of teachings appear alongside the glosses of Liechtenauer’s Epitome on armoured fighting and fighting on horseback (Harnischfechten and Rossfechten) often enough to be considered auctoritas on ...
Jaquet, Daniel, Walczak, Bartłomiej
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Reinventing the sword: a cultural comparison of the development of the sword in response to the advent of firearms in Spain and Japan [PDF]
, 2007 Swords have been used throughout history as weapons of war, as symbols of power and wealth and as national and religious icons. Unlike other weapons however, the sword did not simply fade into the background as technological improvements caused the ...
Ethridge, Charles Edward
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Early synapsids neurosensory diversity revealed by CT and synchrotron scanning. [PDF]
Anat Rec (Hoboken)Abstract Non‐mammaliaform synapsids (NMS) represent the closest relatives of today's mammals among the early amniotes. Exploring their brain and nervous system is key to understanding how mammals evolved. Here, using CT and Synchrotron scanning, we document for the first time three extreme cases of neurosensory and behavioral adaptations that probe ...
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