Acta Periodica Duellatorum

Acta Periodica Duellatorum (APD) is an independent academic journal dedicated to Historical European Martial Arts studies. This emerging field of research has strong interdisciplinary dimensions with notably History, Anthropology, Historical sciences, Art History, History of Science and Technology, Archaeology, Sport Sciences, etc.

APD was founded in 2013 and publishes two issues per year. The Scholarly volume offers an academic level platform for fundamental research, position papers and methodological papers, with a double blind peer review process (indexed and distributed by De Gruyter). The Hands On volume offers a platform for pragmatic research, intended for the communities of practitioners, bridging the gap between experienced martial artists, independent researchers and scholars.

APD is a non for profit association. It is supported by institutional grants, independent sponsors/partners and by its readers. The journal is printed for authors and registered readers/institutions. It is also electronically distributed and printed on demand.

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The following is an incomplete list of the papers published in Acta Periodica Duellatorum, limited to publications containing scans, transcriptions, or translations of, or peer-reviewed research on fencing treatises.

• Bas, Pierre-Henry (2019). "Horseback fighting in Pietro del Monte's Collectanea (1509): from training to the reality of pitched battle." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 7(1): 255–263. doi:10.2478/apd-2019-0009.
• Battistini, Alessandro; Niki Corradetti (2016). "Income and working time of a Fencing Master in Bologna in the 15th and early 16th century." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 4(1): 153-176. doi:10.36950/apd-2016-005.
• Bauer, Matthias Johannes (2016). "Economising Early Prints on Fight Books by Multiple Using Movable Half Page Woodcuts." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 4(2): 99–116. doi:10.36950/apd-2016-015.
• Bauer, Matthias Johannes (2020). "The Fight Book of Hugold Behr: A Late Sixteenth-Century Fight Book in Comparative Perspective." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 8(1): 89-104. doi:10.36950/apd-2020-006.
• Binard, Fanny; Daniel Jaquet (2016). "Investigation on the collation of the first Fight book (Leeds, Royal Armouries, Ms I.33)." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 4(1): 3-21. doi:10.1515/apd-2016-0001.
• Brioist, Pascal (2019). "Contextualising Pietro Monte's Military Career in Italy." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 7(1): 217-227. doi:10.2478/apd-2019-0006.
• Deacon, Jacob Henry (2016). "Prologues, Poetry, Prose and Portrayals: The Purposes of Fifteenth Century Fight Books According to the Diplomatic Evidence." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 4(2): 69-90. doi:10.36950/apd-2016-014.
• Deacon, Jacob Henry; Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis (2019). "Reaching Excellence: Staff Weapon Typologies, Contexts, and Fighting Techniques in the Collectanea of Pietro Monte." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 7(1): 235–254. doi:10.2478/apd-2019-0008.
• Dupuis, Olivier (2016). "The French staff material from Johann Georg Pasch." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 4(1): 53-101. doi:10.36950/apd-2016-003.
• Dupuis, Olivier; Vincent Deluz (2017). "Le Jeu de la Hache: A Critical edition and dating discussion." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 5(1): 3-62. doi:10.1515/apd-2017-0001.
• Dupuis, Olivier (2021). "A New Manuscript of Joachim Meyer (1561)." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 9(1): 73-86. doi:10.36950/apd-2021-004.
• Elema, Ariella (2019). "Tradition, Innovation, Re-enactment: Hans Talhoffer's Unusual Weapons." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 7(1): 3-25. doi:10.2478/apd-2019-0001.
• Farrell, Keith (2015). "The Kölner Fechtbuch: Context and Comparison." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 3(1): 203–236. doi:10.36950/apd-2015-007.
• Geldof, Mark Ryan (2022). "Cut and paste: re-arranging British Library MS Additional 39564." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 10(1): 97-106. doi:10.36950/apd-2022-006.
• Gotti, Roberto; Daniel Jaquet (2016). "Two late flying prints informing on the artist involved in the Opera Nova of Achille Marozzo and on the date of an original (lost) edition?." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 4(1): 213-220. doi:10.1515/apd-2016-0007.
• Gräf, Julia (2017). "Fighting in women's clothes: The pictorial evidence of Walpurgis in Ms. I.33." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 5(2): 47-71. doi:10.1515/apd-2017-0008.
• Hagedorn, Dierk (2015). "The Adventures of the Gladiatoria Manuscript from New Haven." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 3(1): 183-208. doi:10.1515/apd-2015-0006.
• Jaquet, Daniel; Bartłomiej Walczak (2014). "Liegnitzer, Hundsfeld or Lew? The question of authorship of popular Medieval fighting teachings." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 2(1): 105-148. doi:10.1515/apd-2015-0015.
• Jaquet, Daniel (2017). "The collection of Lew the Jew in the lineage of German Fight Books corpus." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 5(1): 151-191. doi:10.1515/apd-2017-0004.
• Kirchhoff, Chassica (2018). "Visualizing the Fight Book Tradition: Collected Martial Knowledge in the Thun-Hohenstein Album." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 6(1): 3-45. doi:10.2478/apd-2018-0001.
• Le Coultre, Anne-Caroline (2017). "The typological debates around Le Jeu de la Hache (BnF MS Français 1996) and their stakes for HEMA practice." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 5(2): 97-114. doi:10.1515/apd-2017-0010.
• Leblanc, Hélène; Franck Cinato (2023). "Scholastic Clues in Two Latin Fencing Manuals: Bridging the gap between medieval and renaissance cultures." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 11(1): 39-64. doi:10.36950/apd-2023-004.
• Majár, János; Zoltán Várhelyi (2014). "Thibault and Science I. Measure, Distances and Proportions in the Circle." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 2(1): 67-104. doi:10.1515/apd-2015-0014.
• Mondschein, Ken (2018). "On the Art of Fighting: A Humanist Translation of Fiore dei Liberi's Flower of Battle Owned by Leonello D'Este." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 6(1): 99-135. doi:10.2478/apd-2018-0004.
• Pietersma, Miente (2023). "The Cutting Edge in Print: Images and the Discerning Mind in Achille Marozzo's Opera nova (1536)." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 11(1): 65-90. doi:10.36950/apd-2023-005.
• Roelofsen, Mathijs (2020). "La Noble Science des Joueurs d'Espée: Fight Book and Commercial Product." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 8(1): 73-88. doi:10.36950/apd-2020-005.
• Runacres, Rob (2022). "The Bolognese Tradition: Ancient Tradition or Modern Myth?." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 10(1): 1-18. doi:10.36950/apd-2022-002.
• Sánchez García, Darío (2022). "Analysis of footwork diagrams from Libro de las grandezas de la espada." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 10(1): 73-96. doi:10.36950/apd-2022-005.
• Valle Ortiz, Manuel (2019). "Libro del exercicio de las armas: A New Pietro Monte Manuscript." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 7(1): 229-233. doi:10.2478/apd-2019-0007.
• Van Noort, Reinier; Jan Schäfer (2017). "An analysis and comparison of two German thrust-fencing manuscripts." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 5(1): 63-74. doi:10.36950/apd-2017-002.
• Van Noort, Reinier (2019). "This tickles beyond all measure: an expanded version of Henning's Hieb-Fechten in Add MS 17533." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 7(1): 61-171. doi:10.2478/apd-2019-0003.
• Verelst, Karin (2023). "Medicine, Logic, or Metaphysics? Aristotelianism and Scholasticism in the Fight Book Corpus." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 11(1): 91-127. doi:10.36950/apd-2023-006.
• Walczak, Bartłomiej; Bartosz Starko (2018). "Additional Transmissions of Hundsfeld and Lignitzer Dagger Teachings." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 6(1): 137-149. doi:10.2478/apd-2018-0005.
• Waldmann, Szabolcs (2013). "Mertein Hündsfelder: Fechtlehre mit dem Kurzen Schwert, circa 1491 AD, Fight-Teaching with the Shortened Sword from Codex Speyer (137r-141r)." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 1(2): 93-105. doi:10.36950/apd-2013-006.