‘Can These Bones Come to Life?’, Volume 1
Historical European Martial Arts
edited by Ken Mondschein
Paperback (Published)
(July 2014)
ISBN: 9781937439132
6.97 x 10 inches
Price: $27.95
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This volume examines the study and reconstruction of medieval and early modern fight-books and related subjects. The subjects covered range from manuscript studies to philology, from Aristotelian physics to martial musicality, from medieval textuality to women and warfare.
Understanding the past takes more forms than historiography. Since 2005, professional and amateur scholars have come together at the annual International Medieval Congress in Western Michigan University to discuss the role re-construction, re-enactment, and re-creation can play in “breathing life into these dry bones” to deepen our knowledge of the past. Under the sponsorship of the Higgins Armory Museum and the Oakeshott Institute, presenters have looked at subjects ranging from ore smelting to equitation to the use of recreation and reenactment in the classroom. A special focus of these sessions has always been the critical examination of European fencing books, or Fechtbucher-not only for the sake of reconstructing the arts found therein, but also for what these sources can tell us about intellectual, cultural, and social history. Thanks in part to editors’ Mondschein and Cramer’s work, the study of fencing books has rapidly become a recognized field of academic study. This volume brings together eight papers examining the study and reconstruction of medieval and early modern fight-books and related subjects. The subjects covered range from manuscript studies to philology, from Aristotelian physics to martial musicality, from medieval textuality to women and warfare. It will be of interest not only to professional historians, musicologists, literary scholars, and art historians, but also to the vast army of impassioned and enthusiastic practitioners who endeavor, as a labor of love, to make the past come to life.
Introduction Ken Mondschein Amazon, Allegory, Swordswoman, Saint? The Walpurgis Images in Royal Armouries MS I.33 Valerie Eads and Rebecca L. R. Garber Arts and Crafts of War: die Kunst des Schwertes in its Manuscript Context. Keith Alderson The Medieval Experience of Time: Aristotle, Universals, and Technologies Ken Mondschein Patterns of Remedy in il Fior di Battaglia Robert Charrette Memory and Performance: Visual and Rhetorical Strategies of Medieval Martial Arts Texts Sean Hayes The Terminology of Medieval English Fight Texts: A Brief Overview James Hester Pure Air and Fire: Re-creating Medieval Horsemanship, or How to Ride like a Knight Michael A. Cramer Performance of the "Palastinalied" of Walther von der Vogelweide Mary Loomer Oliver
- Edited by Ken Mondschein
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