scholarly journals A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Iason Eleftherios Tzouriadis ◽  
Jacob Deacon

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.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mika Kajava ◽  
Tua Korhonen ◽  
Jamie Vesterinen

Contains articles among others: Grigory Vorobyev, Theodore Gaza’s Translation between Diplomacy and Humanism. A List of European Countries in Pope Nicholas V's Letter to the Last Byzantine Emperor; Angelo de Patto, Uberto Decembrio’s Epitaph. A Fifteenth-century Greek-Latin Epigraph; Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, Guillaume Budé’s Greek manifesto. The Introductory Epistles of the Commentarii linguae Graecae (1529): Martin Steinrück, Rabelais' Quart livre and Greek language; Johanna Akujärvi, Neo-Latin Texts and Humanist Greek Paratexts. On Two Wittenberg Prints Dedicated to Crown Prince Erik of Sweden; Stefan Rhein, Die Griechischstudien in Deutschland und ihre universitäre Institutionalisierung im 16. Jahrhundert. Ein Überblick; Jochen Schultheiss, Profilbildung eines Dichterphilologen -Joachim Camerarius d.Ä als Verfasser, Übersetzer und Herausgeber griechischer Epigramme; Stefan Weise, Griechische Mythologie im Dienste reformatorischer Pädagogik: Zur Epensammlung Argonautica. Thebaica. Troica. Ilias parva von Lorenz Rhodoman (1588); Thomas Gärtner, Jonische Hexameter als Träger der norddeutschen Reformation; Marcela Slavíková, Γενεήν Βοίημος. Humanist Greek Poetry in the Bohemian Lands; Pieta van Beek, Ούλτραϊεκτείνων μέγα κύδος πότνια κούρη. Greek Eulogies in Honour of Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678); Janika Päll, German Neo-Humanism versus Rising Professionalism. Carmina Hellenica Teutonum by the Braunschweig Physician and PhiIheIIene Karl Friedrich Arend Scheller (1773-1842); Elena Ermolaeva, Three Greek Poems by the Neohumanist Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949).


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-56
Author(s):  
Geraldine A. Johnson

The reception of art is often described in ocularcentric terms, but all five senses could engage devotional objects in late medieval and early modern Europe. This article explores this phenomenon by considering a wooden crucifix with movable arms made by Donatello for the Franciscan church of S. Croce in Florence in the early fifteenth century. It makes new suggestions about the work's original location, its possible patrons, and its functions and reception, especially during the rituals associated with Good Friday. It also reflects on the challenges scholars face when taking a multisensory approach to premodern visual and material culture.


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