A Proposed Methodology for the Validation of Historical European Martial Arts
A Proposed Methodology for the Validation of Historical European Martial Arts

Summary/Abstract: Proposes a three-part interdisciplinary validation for practical interpretations of medieval martial arts as recorded in surviving European fighting treatises or Fechtbücher from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. Suggests that the three main levels of validation revolve around the linguistic, which is covered through the traditional publication/challenge peer review process; the physical, which requires a blended textual and kinesiological testing through presentations to other practitioners; and tactical, which, owing to the lack of surviving original sources in the written text or from other manuscripts for comparison, might be tested through competition to see which interpretations demonstrate superior martial superiority.

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