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Fight Books in Context: Martial and University Cultures at the Edge of Modernity (ed. by Hélène Leblanc)
Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023)Late fifteenth and early sixteenth century fight books as a flourishing body of technical literature form a good corpus for the investigation of the Scholasticism as a traditional framework of education and knowledge, confronted with other emerging models of knowledge production. The recurring concern of the authors of fight books to confer sufficient legitimacy on their discipline relies, especially within the prefaces, on philosophical or theological references, clearly pointing to the Scholastic background.
This special issue stems from a panel entitled “Fencing Manuals and Scholasticism”, held during the Congress of the Renaissance Society of America (University of Dublin, 01.04.2022). It was organised by Dr. Hélène Leblanc and sponsored by the ARC project ‘Schol’Art: The early modern theories of arts and letters in the light of scholasticism (France-Italy, 1500-1700)’ (2019–2023, GEMCA, UCLouvain, PI: A. Smeesters, R. Dekoninck, A. Guiderdoni). The conference proceedings include all papers presented and additional invited contributions on the topic.
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Special issue: Fencing books' collection of the Festetics Family.
Vol. 10 No. 2This special issue put the scans of the fencing books collection of the family Festetics, available for research purposes.
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Conference proceedings: Fight Books in Comparative Perspective (Deutsches Klingenmuseum, 9-10 Nov. 2017), edited by Sixt Wetzler, Daniel Jaquet, and Jacob Henry Deacon
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2020)This volume contains the proceedings of the conference at the Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen (the German Blade Museum): the “Fight Books in Comparative Perspective”, organised in cooperation with Acta Periodica Duellatorum and the Kommission Kampfkunst und Kampfsport (Committee for Martial Arts Studies in the German Association for Sports Science), on 9 and 10 November 2017. Sixteen lectures and three posters were given at the conference.
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Thematic issue: Sabre and Duelling, edited by Matyas Miskolczi
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018)This thematic issue revolves around the use of the sabre according to fencing manuals of the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century Europe and Russia.
