Visualizing the Fight Book Tradition: Collected Martial Knowledge in the Thun-Hohenstein Album

Visualizing the Fight Book Tradition: Collected Martial Knowledge in the Thun-Hohenstein Album

The Thun-Hohenstein album, long-known as the Thun’sche Skizzenbuch, is a bound collection of 112 drawings that visualize armoured figures at rest and in combat, as well as empty armours arrayed in pieces. The collection gathers drawings that span the period from the 1470s to around 1590. While most...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirchhoff Chassica
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2018-06-01
Series:Acta Periodica Duellatorum
Subjects:
Thun-Hohenstein album
fight books
Fechtbuch
codicology
manuscript studies
book painting
comparative analysis
image and memory
collecting
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