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Moving the Past.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talaga, Maciej.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (110 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bicester : Archaeopress, 2025.
- Summary:
- This volume examines discontinued movement cultures through experiential research. Drawing on case studies from ancient combat to Irish wrestling and medieval training, it explores how embodied practice can illuminate past skills, methods, and the limits of reconstructing lost traditions.
- Contents:
- Cover
- About Access Archaeology
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Author Biographies
- Introduction
- Maciej Talaga
- Chapter 1. Triangle of Diverging Incentives. Methods for Reconstruction of Personal Combat Techniques
- Bartłomiej Walczak
- Chapter 2. Leveraging Reenactment and Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) for the Understanding of Ancient Combat
- Paul M. Bardunias
- Benjamin R. Truska
- Chapter 3. Crooks, Hooks, Trips, and Taps. Reconstructing Irish Collar and Elbow Wrestling
- Ruadhán MacFadden
- Chapter 4. Gripping Affordances of Select Post-Medieval European Sidearms
- Jerzy Miklaszewski
- Chapter 5. Boots on the Ground: Late-Medieval Infantry Marches and Infrastructure
- Charles Lin
- Chapter 6. Going Medieval on the Body. An Autoethnographic Study on a Late-Medieval Fighter's Physical Conditioning Regimen
- Maciej Talaga and Krzysztof Kozak
- Coda: Why Moving the Past?
- References
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80583-193-3
- 9781805831938
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