A Long Time Ago in a Library Far, Far Away ... The Adventures of the Gladiatoria Manuscript from New Haven

In this paper I will describe the adventurous history of an important late medieval German fechtbuch—a fighting manual—that belongs to a number of manuscripts known as the Gladiatoria group. In the beginning, the extent and the characteristics of this group of codices are explained; later on I will...

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Main Author: Hagedorn Dierk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2015-05-01
Series:Acta Periodica Duellatorum
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/apd.2015.3.issue-1/apd-2015-0006/apd-2015-0006.xml?format=INT