“…Double-edged Swords…”

Materias: “…Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…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. …”