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

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

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This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians,...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Chao, Hing (Editor), Jaquet, Daniel (Editor), Kim, Loretta (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Martial Studies, 2
Subjects:
Cultural property.
Digital humanities.
Ethnology.
Cultural Heritage.
Digital Humanities.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
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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. .

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