Full Description
Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe.
The first part of the book deals with methodological and specific issues for the studies of this emerging interdisciplinary field of research. The second section offers an overview of the corpus based on geographical areas. The final part offers some relevant case studies.
This is the first book proposing a comprehensive state of research and an overview of Historical European Martial Arts Studies. One of its major strengths lies in its association of interdisciplinary scholars with practitioners of martial arts.
Contributors are Sydney Anglo, Matthias Johannes Bauer, Eric Burkart, Marco Cavina, Franck Cinato, John Clements, Timothy Dawson, Olivier Dupuis, Bert Gevaert, Dierk Hagedorn, Daniel Jaquet, Rachel E. Kellet, Jens Peter Kleinau, Ken Mondschein, Reinier van Noort, B. Ann Tlusty, Manuel Valle Ortiz, Karin Verelst, and Paul Wagner.
Contents
Contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
List of Contributors xi
1 Foreword 1
Sydney Anglo
2 Introduction 7
Karin Verelst, in collaboration with Timothy Dawson and Daniel Jaquet
PART 1
Fight Books and Methodological Issues through Disciplinary
Lenses
3 Before the Fight Books: Identifying Sources of Martial Techniques in
Antique and Medieval Art 31
Timothy Dawson
4 Teaching How to Fight with Encrypted Words: Linguistic Aspects of
German Fencing and Wrestling Treatises of the Middle Ages and Early
Modern Times 47
Matthias Johannes Bauer
5 Only a Flesh-Wound? The Literary Background to Medieval German
Fight Books 62
Rachel E. Kellet
6 Visualised Motion: Iconography of Medieval and Renaissance Fencing
Books 88
Jens Peter Kleinau
7 Finding a Way through the Labyrinth: Some Methodological Remarks on
Critically Editing the Fight Book Corpus 117
Karin Verelst
8 Problems of Interpretation and Application in Fight Book Studies 189
John Clements
9 Experimenting Historical European Martial Arts, a Scientific
Method? 216
Daniel Jaquet
PART 2
From the Books to the Arts: The Fighting Arts in Context
10 German Fechtbücher from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance 247
Dierk Hagedorn
11 The Italian Schools of Fencing: Art, Science, and Pedagogy 280
Ken Mondschein
12 The Destreza Verdadera: A Global Phenomenon 324
Manuel Valle Ortiz
13 The French Fencing Traditions, from the 14th Century to 1630 through
Fight Books 354
Olivier Dupuis
14 Evolution of Martial Tradition in the Low Countries: Fencing Guilds
and Treatises 376
Bert Gevaert and Reinier van Noort
15 Common Themes in the Fighting Tradition of the British Isles 410
PART 3
Martial Arts, Martial Culture and Case Studies
16 The Autograph of an Erudite Martial Artist: A Close Reading of
Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 3227a 451
Eric Burkart
17 Development, Diffusion and Reception of the "Buckler Play":
A Case Study of a Fighting Art in the Making 481
Franck Cinato
18 Martial Identity and the Culture of the Sword in Early Modern
Germany 547
B. Ann Tlusty
19 Science of Duel and Science of Honour in the Modern Age: The
Construction of a New Science between Customs, Jurisprudence,
Literature and Philosophy 571
Marco Cavina
20 Conclusion 594
Daniel Jaquet, in collaboration with Timothy Dawson and Karin Verelst
General Bibliography 603
Index 614
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