Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Volume I

Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Volume IScholar swordsman Paulus Hector Mair (1517 1579) commissioned a study of medieval European combat, the Treatise on the Martial Arts. This edition presents both the original German and Latin texts, as well as a modern English translation, with full colour illustrations. Volume 1 is the Longsword, the traditional centrepiece of the German tradition.

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'net culture'

It shows how women

McDaniel and Robertson demonstrate provocatively what it would mean to move beyond the alphabet we know to a wholly new system of written communication

The first critical examination of magical techniques and the practice of the magician in Ancient Egypt

it examines the peak era of Jewish involvement and interest in sport and physical recreation in Britain in recent times

the book considers the idea of the past and the role of space and time in the visual ekphrasis or description of its architecture

Pathways to Action shows how keystone organizations can take seemingly impossible situations and turn them into business opportunities

This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward

Popular song is an art form which reaches far beyond the music itself

It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle Ages

This book takes an extreme position in that debate: as far as Tales of magic is concerned