ContentsList of Figures and Tables ixList of Contributors xi1 Foreword 1Sydney Anglo2 Introduction 7Karin Verelst, in collaboration with Timothy Dawson and Daniel JaquetPART 1Fight Books and Methodological Issues through DisciplinaryLenses3 Before the Fight Books: Identifying Sources of Martial Techniques inAntique and Medieval Art 31Timothy Dawson4 Teaching How to Fight with Encrypted Words: Linguistic Aspects ofGerman Fencing and Wrestling Treatises of the Middle Ages and EarlyModern Times 47Matthias Johannes Bauer5 Only a Flesh-Wound? The Literary Background to Medieval GermanFight Books 62Rachel E. Kellet6 Visualised Motion: Iconography of Medieval and Renaissance FencingBooks 88Jens Peter Kleinau7 Finding a Way through the Labyrinth: Some Methodological Remarks onCritically Editing the Fight Book Corpus 117Karin Verelst8 Problems of Interpretation and Application in Fight Book Studies 189John Clements9 Experimenting Historical European Martial Arts, a ScientificMethod? 216Daniel JaquetPART 2From the Books to the Arts: The Fighting Arts in Context10 German Fechtbücher from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance 247Dierk Hagedorn11 The Italian Schools of Fencing: Art, Science, and Pedagogy 280Ken Mondschein12 The Destreza Verdadera: A Global Phenomenon 324Manuel Valle Ortiz13 The French Fencing Traditions, from the 14th Century to 1630 throughFight Books 354Olivier Dupuis14 Evolution of Martial Tradition in the Low Countries: Fencing Guildsand Treatises 376Bert Gevaert and Reinier van Noort15 Common Themes in the Fighting Tradition of the British Isles 410PART 3Martial Arts, Martial Culture and Case Studies16 The Autograph of an Erudite Martial Artist: A Close Reading ofNuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 3227a 451Eric Burkart17 Development, Diffusion and Reception of the "Buckler Play":A Case Study of a Fighting Art in the Making 481Franck Cinato18 Martial Identity and the Culture of the Sword in Early ModernGermany 547B. Ann Tlusty19 Science of Duel and Science of Honour in the Modern Age: TheConstruction of a New Science between Customs, Jurisprudence,Literature and Philosophy 571Marco Cavina20 Conclusion 594Daniel Jaquet, in collaboration with Timothy Dawson and Karin VerelstGeneral Bibliography 603Index 614.