Putting Arms to Paper: Fighting Manuals as Pedagogical Texts in Italy and Germany, c. 1380–1700
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Notarial Archives Foundation
217, St Paul Street, Valletta, Malta
Speaker: Adam Peter Fretwell Language: English Summary: This lecture examines European fighting manuals produced between approximately 1380 and 1700, focusing on Italian and German traditions and treating these sources as pedagogical artefacts rather than merely repositories of technique. Beginning with late medieval manuscript traditions - most notably Fiore dei Liberi’s Fior di Battaglia and the […]
