EAN: 9789811920394

MARTIAL CULTURE AND HISTORICAL MARTIAL ARTS IN ...

This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study
of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia  in particular in Italy and
China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies  contributors to this volume
include historians  archeologists  art historians  scholars of fencing literature 
metallurgists  as well as contemporary master swordsmiths and masters-of-arms in historical
martial arts. Assembling researchers from these diverse fields  this book offers a
multi-perspectival and dynamic view of martial culture across time and space. The
cross-cultural and interdisciplinary significance of this book cannot be overemphasized.
Whereas a number of contributors are internationally recognized and  indeed  leading
authorities in their respective fields  for example  Jeffrey Shaw has been a world-leading new
media artist and scholar since the 1970s  while Ma Mingda is a well-known historian and the
contemporary founder of Chinese martial studies  and while there are significant overlaps in
their research interests  this book brings their research within a single volume for the first
time. Equally significant  the book is structured in such a way to reflect the various core
aspects of martial studies  particularly in relation to the study of historic sword culture 
including history  culture  philosophy  literature and knowledge transmission  material culture
as well as the technical aspects of historical fencing. As one of the first titles on martial
studies  this book becomes a reference not only for scholars taking an interest in this subject
but also for historians  scholars with interest in Chinese and or Italian history (particularly
of the Medieval or early modern periods)  the history of international relations in Asia   Far
East  anthropologists  scholars of martial (arts) studies and researchers in sword-making and
or historic metallurgy.

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