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seventeenth centuries. Talhoffer, likely a student of Liechtenauer, reveals an array of great-sword and two-handed sword techniq ...

ing both in it and against it profoundly changed individual combat. More- over, social and technological forces severely affecte ...

an influential treatise at the time, which retains its popularity. Saviolo was instrumental in bringing the art to England when ...

naissance spirit of the times, the English Masters of Defence rigorously stud- ied their craft and openly plied their trade. Con ...

the time, also taught wrestling, grappling, disarms, dagger fighting, and the use of two-handed swords, staffs, and pole-arms. S ...

the classic Western approach to learning, modern practitioners can exam- ine methods of the Masters of Defence from their own wo ...

———. 1980. The Sword and the Centuries: or, Old Sword Days and Old Sword Ways.1901. Reprint, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle. Mey ...

fundamental Chinese worldview remains intact after five millennia. This worldview is the force that has shaped the development o ...

volves a moral determination of goodness versus evil, or between health and disease. Therefore, all medical decisions are ultima ...

saps the resources of its neighbors and injures the system, the physician de- pletes it. Of course, enhancement and depletion ar ...

those of Japan and Korea. These cultures adapted features of Daoist phi- losophy to their needs. Yet the invention of a generali ...

occur at many levels. The pre–Qin dynasty general Sunzi (Sun Wu, probably fourth century B.C.) wrote, in The Art of War, that th ...

Disease, dissension, and strife are universal human conditions. Prehis- toric artifacts reveal that combat is contemporaneous wi ...

334 Medicine, Traditional Chinese ...

Meditation Meditationis the general term for various techniques and practices de- signed to induce an altered state of conscious ...

the realm of the most advanced masters of the martial arts. Meditative states can be induced through various postures incorporat ...

is a state of mind that is cultivated in Zen and the Zen-influenced arts. In mushin, the mind is open to everything but not dist ...

Maliszewski, Michael. 1996. Spiritual Dimensions of the Martial Arts. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle. Sato, Hiroaki, ed. 1985. T ...

An Indian copy done in Persian style from an Islamic book depicts Rustan, a seventh-century Persian general, slaying White Deity ...

ture battles. The central character is reputed to be based on an historical Sumerian king (ca. 2850 B.C.); therefore, it is inte ...