Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia A Multi-perspective View on Sword Culture /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Chao, Hing (Editor), Jaquet, Daniel (Editor), Kim, Loretta (Editor)
Summary:XXII, 381 p. 267 illus., 230 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Martial Studies, 2
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2037-0
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 : Sword Culture from Socio-historic Perspectives
  • Chapter 1 - Stratification in Italian Martial Culture (Roberto Gotti & Enrico Valseriati)
  • Chapter 2 - Development of the Yanlingdao from the Yuan to Qing dynasty (Gong Jian)
  • Chapter 3 - Daniel Jaquet, The Rise of the Two-Handed Sword in the Age of Staff-Weapons
  • Chapter 4 - Ma Lianzhen, The Origin of the Two-Handed Sword in China
  • Part 2: Fight Books: the Transmission and Interpretation of Knowledge
  • Chapter 5 - Omar Ma, Ming Dynasty Chinese Fencing Treatises
  • Chapter 6 - Miriam Vogelaar, Fabris’s 1606 Fencing Manual: an Analytical Bibliographical Study
  • Chapter 7 - Manuel Valle Ortiz, The Ferrara Manuscript: Destreza and Vulgar
  • Part 3: Material Culture: Weapons, Technology, & Aesthetics
  • Chapter 8 - Hu Xiaojun, Rediscovering Swordmaking Techniques of Ancient China: Insights from Reconstructing a Han-Dynasty Ring-Pommel Dao
  • Chapter 9 - Gabriele Tonelli, Historical Sword-making Techniques in Northern Italy in the XVI and XVII Centuries
  • part 4 : Classical Martial Art Traditions
  • Chapter 10 - Ma Lianzhen, Duanbing and the History of Fencing in China
  • Chapter 11 - Jacopo Penso, Interpreting Achille Marozzo’s System of Sword-fighting: A Contemporary Case Study
  • Chapter 12 - Axel Pettersson, Applying Pedagogic Methods in Historic European Martial Arts. .