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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| description | 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 and early modern Europe, particularly various typologies of staff weapons. This article presents an analysis of the appearance staff weapons in the heterogeneous fight book genre. It uses their limited appearance, in comparison to swords, as a means of creating a microcosm through which several questions about the wider fight book genre can be assessed. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-85bb60bd71464d3da28f01b15566366a2025-08-20T02:52:23ZengBern Open PublishingActa Periodica Duellatorum2064-04042020-10-018110.36950/apd-2020-004A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550Iason Eleftherios Tzouriadis0Jacob DeaconThe Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre DrawersThe 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 and early modern Europe, particularly various typologies of staff weapons. This article presents an analysis of the appearance staff weapons in the heterogeneous fight book genre. It uses their limited appearance, in comparison to swords, as a means of creating a microcosm through which several questions about the wider fight book genre can be assessed.https://bop.unibe.ch/apd/article/view/7126staff weaponfight booksfighting systemmartial artsarms and armourwarfare |
| spellingShingle | Iason Eleftherios Tzouriadis Jacob Deacon A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550 Acta Periodica Duellatorum staff weapon fight books fighting system martial arts arms and armour warfare |
| title | A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550 |
| title_full | A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550 |
| title_fullStr | A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550 |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550 |
| title_short | A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550 |
| title_sort | long distance relationship staff weapons as a microcosm for the study of fight books c 1400 1550 |
| topic | staff weapon fight books fighting system martial arts arms and armour warfare |
| url | https://bop.unibe.ch/apd/article/view/7126 |
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