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A multidisciplinary overview of current research into the
enduringly fascinating martial artefact which is the sword. The
sword is the most iconic of all weapons. Throughout history, it has
connected various, sometimes conflicting, dimensions of human
culture: physical combat and representation of political power,
definition of gender roles and refinement of body techniques,
evolution of craftsmanship and mythological symbolism. The articles
collected here explore these dimensions, from a variety of
disciplines, among them archaeology, medieval history, museum
conservation, and linguistics. They cover topics from the
production and combat use of Bronze Age swords via medieval fencing
culture to the employment of the sword in modern military. They
question traditional sword typologies and wide-spread theories
about sword making, discuss medieval sword terminology and the use
of swords as royal insignia, and describe the scientific methods
for approaching original finds. Arising from an international
conference held at Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen (the German
Blade Museum), the volume provides fresh insights into the forms
the sword can take, and the thoughts it inspires. LISA DEUTSCHER
and MIRJAM E. KAISER work in prehistoric archaeology, specialising
in La Tène and Bronze Age swords, respectively. SIXT WETZLER is
the deputy director of the German Blade Museum; his research
focuses on the history of edged weapons, and their use.
Contributors:Matthias Johannes Bauer, Holger Becker, Jan-Heinrich
Bunnefeld, Rachel J. Crellin, Vincenzo D'Ercole, Andrea Dolfini,
Raphael Hermann, Daniel Jaquet, Robert W. Jones, Ulrich Lehmann,
Claus Lipka, Stefan Maeder, Michael Mattner, Florian Messner,
Nicole Mölk, Ingo Petri, Stefan Roth, Fabrizio Savi, Ulrike
Töchterle, Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis, Marion Uckelmann, Henry
Yallop
Albrecht Durer is probably the most famous German artist of the
Renaissance, if not of all time. His works are world-famous and he
was a master in numerous artistic disciplines such as woodcut,
copperplate engraving, drawing and painting. What is less well
known is that he was interested in weapons and fencing throughout
his life. He produced several woodcuts for a tournament book by
Emperor Maximilian I, but he devoted himself much more thoroughly
to the subject of duels in his own extensive fencing manuscript.
Durer's fight book stands out from the mass of illustrated fencing
manuscripts because of its outstanding quality. In well over 100
elaborate drawings, the master uniquely depicts dynamic pairs of
fighters practising contemporary combat techniques, such as
wrestling or sword and dagger fighting. Since its creation more
than 500 years ago, the fight book has never been published in its
entirety. This edition offers the complete contents of the
manuscript for the very first time: All illustrations are
reproduced in colour and the complete text is presented in a
letter-perfect transcription as well as a translation into modern
English. Albrecht Durer's fight book offers a unique, new look at
Durer the artist and Durer the fighter.
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. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies,
contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art
historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well
as contemporary master swordsmiths and masters-of-arms in
historical martial arts. Assembling researchers from these diverse
fields, this book offers a multi-perspectival and dynamic view of
martial culture across time and space. The cross-cultural and
interdisciplinary significance of this book cannot be
overemphasized. Whereas a number of contributors are
internationally recognized and, indeed, leading authorities in
their respective fields; for example, Jeffrey Shaw has been a
world-leading new media artist and scholar since the 1970s, while
Ma Mingda is a well-known historian and the contemporary founder of
Chinese martial studies; and while there are significant overlaps
in their research interests, this book brings their research within
a single volume for the first time. Equally significant, the book
is structured in such a way to reflect the various core aspects of
martial studies, particularly in relation to the study of historic
sword culture, including history, culture, philosophy, literature
and knowledge transmission, material culture, as well as the
technical aspects of historical fencing. As one of the first titles
on martial studies, this book becomes a reference not only for
scholars taking an interest in this subject, but also for
historians; scholars with interest in Chinese and/or Italian
history (particularly of the Medieval or early modern periods), the
history of international relations in Asia / Far East;
anthropologists; scholars of martial (arts) studies and researchers
in sword-making and/or historic metallurgy.
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 (Fechtbucher) 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.
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