The paper is organised around the notion of embodied technique. The recent attempts to
formulate scientific methodologies for the reconstruction of medieval fighting techniques …

This article challenges the idea, presented by both ancient and modern writers, that the
armies of the Middle Republic were governed by a clearly articulated ideology of discipline. I …

This video article presents an interdisciplinary approach dealing with the reconstruction of
the lost embodied knowledge of wearers of late medieval harnesses. Our research is based …

No bibliometric or analytic studies of the fight books have been conducted and few reference
publications offer analyses of the genre as a whole. Moreover, the existing bibliographies all …

This paper traces the changes to the intellectual classification of fencing. The authors of
fencing treatises attempted to shift the perception of fencing from its long held violent …

The Royal Armouries MS I. 33 is the oldest European work describing fighting technique
(fight book) known to exist, produced in Southern Germany in the early fourteenth century. In …

The fifteenth-century fight book author Filippo Vadi wrote that the sword “is a cross and a
royal weapon”: this inherent chivalric symbolism associated with the sword has led to a …

During the Renaissance, measuring played a critical role in shaping trade, material
production (ranging from architecture to tailoring), warfare, legal studies, and even our …

The phenomenon of the fight book is not restricted to the European tradition. Similar
artefacts, usually combining text and image to describe the techniques of close quarter …

This thesis aims to show the extent to which the accurate identification and reconstruction of
historical martial techniques is possible through the analysis of historical written texts. In …