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 medieval an...
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Main Authors: | Iason Eleftherios Tzouriadis, Jacob Deacon |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Bern Open Publishing
2020-10-01
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Series: | Acta Periodica Duellatorum |
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Online Access: | https://bop.unibe.ch/apd/article/view/7126 |
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