A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550
The fifteenth-century fight book author Filippo Vadi wrote that the sword "is a cross and a royal weapon": this inherent chivalric symbolism associated with the sword has led to a wealth of scholarship on the weapon but seemingly at a cost to research into other forms of weaponry used in m...
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Main Authors: | Iason Eleftherios Tzouriadis (Author), Jacob Deacon (Author) |
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Bern Open Publishing,
2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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