Moving the Past: Embodied Research on Discontinued Movement Cultures

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 and 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? – Maciej Talaga

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About the Author

Maciej Talaga, PhD, is an archaeologist and anthropologist specialised in the Central-European Late Middle Ages. His main research interests revolve around pre-modern body and movement cultures, especially late-medieval German martial arts, as well as embodied and self-reflective methodologies in the study of the past. Currently working as Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, he conducts parallel research projects on medieval martial culture and contemporary folk wrestling as part of intangible cultural heritage.