Fight Books in Comparative Perspective: 'El Arte del Caucaseco' (Prof. Dr. T. J. Desch-Obi)

The fourteenth presentation of the conference "Fight Books in Comparative Perspective", held by Prof. Dr. T. J. Desch-Obi on the topic "The Art of Caucaseco. Respectability and social resistance in a Colombian cartilla".

The conference was held at Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen, the German Blade Museum, 09./10. NOV 2017. It tried to develop a multi-layered perspective on the worldwide phenomenon of the "fight book", i.e., texts (and images) created for the transmission of martial knowledge.

Conference program:

The videos of all presentations will be uploaded in the original order of the conference:

17. SEP 2019: Dr. Eric Burkart
"Fighting Complexity.
Fight books as attempts to organise embodied knowledge"
(keynote)

20. SEP 2019: Dr. Daniel Jaquet
"Inscription, Description, Codification.
How to put martial knowledge in words and images."

23. SEP 2019: Prof. Matthias Johannes Bauer
"The Fight Book of Hugold Behr.
A late 16th century fight book in comparative perspective"

26. SEP 2019: Jacob Deacon, Dr. Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis
"A Long Distance Relationship.
Staff weapons as a microcosm for the study of 15th and 16th century fight books"

29. SEP 2019: Dr. Bok Kyu Choi
"Learning Martial Arts through Books?
Comprehensive illustrated martial arts manuals from Korea"
(keynote)

02. OCT 2019: Dr. Julian Braun
"Japanese Martial Arts Books.
An overview"

05. OCT 2019: Michael Mattner
"Understanding the No-Sword?
How to read the illustrated catalogue of the Shinkage-Ryu martial arts"

08. OCT 2019: Henry Yallop
"The “Fight Books” of the British Cavalry"

11. OCT 2019: Dr. Rainer Welle
"From Fixed Image to Cinematic Illusion.
Fight books and internalized images of movement"
(keynote)

14. OCT 2019: Prof. Dr. Dr. Mario Staller
"Beyond Technique.
The limits of books (and online videos) in coach development in the context of self-defence skill development"

17. OCT 2019: Qays Stetkevych
"Wrestling with Medieval Combat.
Buttresses and barriers to the reconstruction of Old Norse grappling"

20. OCT 2019: Cornel-Peter Rodenbusch
"Libellus de Batalla Facienda.
Judicial combat in mid-13th century Catalonia"

23. OCT 2019: Dr. Ben Judkins
"Alfred Lister.
Discovering the “noble art of self-defense” in China"
(keynote)

26. OCT 2019: Prof. Dr. T. J. Desch-Obi
"The Art of Caucaseco.
Respectability and social resistance in a Colombian cartilla"

29. OCT 2019: Dr. Alexander Will
"The Hanging Guard.
William Hope’s invention of self-defence and the spirit of Enlightenment"

01. NOV 2019: Mathijs Roelofsen
"La Noble Science des Ioueurs Despee"