Acta Periodica Duellatorum (vol. 5, issue 1)

Acta Periodica Duellatorum (APD) is an independent, international, and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to Historical European Martial Arts studies. This emerging field of research has strong interdisciplinary dimensions with notably History, Anthropology, Historical sciences, Art History, History of Science and Technology, Archaeology, Sport Sciences, etc.

APD was founded in 2013 and publishes two issues per year from 2016 on.

Table of Contents

SCHOLARLY SECTION

Le Jeu de la Hache: A Critical edition and dating discussion (Olivier Dupuis, Vincent Deluz)

An analysis and comparison of two German thrust-fencing manuscripts (Reinier van Noort, Jan Schäfer)

East meets West: Mounted Encounters in Early and High Mediaeval Europe (Jürg Gassmann)

HANDS ON SECTION

The plays with the axe in armour of the Anonimo Bolognese (1510-1515) (Daniel Jaquet)

Interpretation of Fiore dei Liberi's Plays (Jakub Dobi)

RESEARCH NOTES

The collection of Lew the Jew in the lineage of German Fight Books corpus (Daniel Jaquet)

How to Defend in Water: The French Sailors' Surprising Method of Self-defence (1921) (Julien Garry)

BOOK REVIEWS

Gevaert, Bert, Te Wapen! Europa's vergeten krijgskunsten (Leuven, Davidsfonds, 2016) (Alwin Goethals)

Daniel Jaquet, Karin Verelst and Timothy Dawson (eds.), Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books : Transmission and Tradition of Martial Arts in Europe (14th-17th centuries) (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016), coll. History of Warfare, 112. (Jeff Lord)

Matthias Johannes Bauer, "Der Alten Fechter gründtliche Kunst" - Das Frankfurter oder Egenolffsche Fechtbuch: Untersuchung und Edition (München: Utz, 2016), coll. Geschichtswissenschaften, n37. (Daniel Jaquet)

Paul Bowman, Mythologies of Martial Arts (Martial Arts Studies, 2) (Sixt Wetzler)