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.