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Capoeira Capoeirais a Brazilian martial art that relies primarily on striking tech- niques, although some grappling maneuvers, e ...

the feet and head-butts, some argue, could be delivered by men in chains. Moreover, many oral traditions claim that the practice ...

quiring knowledge of capoeira and the vicious quality of its use as a street- fighting system. The customary label for this art, ...

Songs involving a leader-and- response pattern are sung during play. The words of these songs embody, to take a few examples, co ...

early 1990s. By the late 1990s capoeira had developed an international fol- lowing. The popularity of the art has been fostered ...

the Han Chinese majority, as opposed to Manchu practices of wrestling and archery on horseback), especially those of heterodox r ...

The entries on archery, straight sword, boxing, and even football (more like soccer, which required considerable agility as well ...

arts, and the bow [archery] is the first.” From this time on, exceptional martial artists were commonly described as “skilled in ...

Contemporary literature provides a peek at martial arts activities in and around the Southern Song capital, Hangzhou (1127–1279) ...

branches. The Wudang branch included only instruction in taijiquan, xingyiquan, and baguazhang, while the Shaolin branch arbitra ...

eral policies in recent years have resulted in the resurgence of some, such as the original Chen style of taijiquan. Stanley E. ...

Xie Zhaozhe. 1935. Wuzazu(Five Mixed Categories). Zhongyang Shudian. Yang Hong. 1982. “China’s Ancient Weapons.” China Reconstru ...

Clovis, one of the earliest Frankish leaders, established in 481 a Ger- manic kingdom on the discarded civilization of Roman Gau ...

less. Within this very small assemblage of landed gentry rested the wealth, the political power, and the military strength of th ...

A candidate for knighthood, after serving as a page, often began his apprenticeship at the age of 12 under a veteran knight, who ...

At an earlier time, the knightly ceremony, when performed on the bat- tlefield, was sudden and brief. A young arms-bearer, havin ...

though the weapons were blunted, the martial passion of the combatants led to some brutish duels. The tournament remained a disp ...

There were eight crusades between 1096 and 1270. Except for the rowdy mobs of ravaging peasants who were later massacred by the ...

wise counsel, attacked the Turkish front in a spirited charge but were mas- sacred by a vengeful sultan, except for twenty-five ...

Most aristocratic marriages in the Middle Ages were made chiefly for the dowry of feudal lands the wife would bring to the union ...