Description
Acta Periodica Duellatorum is an annual publication aimed specifically towards the HEMA audience. This publication is compiled of both scholastic and practical theory based articles submitted by professional and amateur authors and held to the same rigors of academia. For fencer’s interested in keeping abreast of the latest research or digging deeper into a wide variety of topics this is a must-have book each year.
Table of Contents
SCHOLARLY SECTION
Le Jeu de la Hache: A Critical edition and dating discussion (Olivier Dupuis, Vincent Deluz)
An analysis and comparison of two German thrust-fencing manuscripts (Reinier van Noort, Jan Schäfer)
East meets West: Mounted Encounters in Early and High Mediaeval Europe (Jürg Gassmann)
HANDS ON SECTION
The plays with the axe in armour of the Anonimo Bolognese (1510-1515) (Daniel Jaquet)
Interpretation of Fiore dei Liberi’s Plays (Jakub Dobi)
RESEARCH NOTES
The collection of Lew the Jew in the lineage of German Fight Books corpus (Daniel Jaquet)
How to Defend in Water: The French Sailors’ Surprising Method of Self-defence (1921) (Julien Garry)
BOOK REVIEWS
Gevaert, Bert, Te Wapen! Europa’s vergeten krijgskunsten (Leuven, Davidsfonds, 2016) (Alwin Goethals)
Daniel Jaquet, Karin Verelst and Timothy Dawson (eds.), Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books : Transmission and Tradition of Martial Arts in Europe (14th-17th centuries) (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016), coll. History of Warfare, 112. (Jeff Lord)
Matthias Johannes Bauer, “Der Alten Fechter gründtliche Kunst” – Das Frankfurter oder Egenolffsche Fechtbuch: Untersuchung und Edition (München: Utz, 2016), coll. Geschichtswissenschaften, n37. (Daniel Jaquet)
Paul Bowman, Mythologies of Martial Arts (Martial Arts Studies, 2) (Sixt Wetzler)
