Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books: Transmission and Tradition of Martial Arts in Europe, 14th-17th Centuries

Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe.
The first part of the book deals with methodological and specific issues for the studies of this emerging interdisciplinary field of research. The second section offers an overview of the corpus based on geographical areas. The final part offers some relevant case studies.
This is the first book proposing a comprehensive state of research and an overview of Historical European Martial Arts Studies. One of its major strengths lies in its association of interdisciplinary scholars with practitioners of martial arts.
Contributors are Sydney Anglo, Matthias Johannes Bauer, Eric Burkart, Marco Cavina, Franck Cinato, John Clements, Timothy Dawson, Olivier Dupuis, Bert Gevaert, Dierk Hagedorn, Daniel Jaquet, Rachel E. Kellet, Jens Peter Kleinau, Ken Mondschein, Reinier van Noort, B. Ann Tlusty, Manuel Valle Ortiz, Karin Verelst, and Paul Wagner.

Daniel Jaquet, Ph.D. in Medieval History (University of Geneva, 2013), is currently in postdoctoral researcher supported by SNSF (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin). He specialises in Martial Arts studies.
Karin Verelst, Ph.D in History and Philosophy of Science (Free University Brussels (VUB), 2006), is affiliated as a senior researcher to VUB’s interdisciplinary research Centrum Leo Apostel (CLEA) and lecturer at the VUB’s arts college RITS. She works on Martial Arts both in practice and as a relevant historical source for the History and Philosophy of Science.
Timothy George Dawson began researching and teaching European historical combat forms in 1981, continuing to do so to the present. He has degrees in Classical Studies, focussing on everyday life and material culture, and has published extensively in these areas.