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Gründtliche Beschreibung des Fechtens.
From words to gestures, vocabulary’s role in historical experimentation
From text to illustration, from illustration to gesture, the reconstruction of a martial art with the support of historical sources is a difficult activity. Methodological and material pitfalls make any experimentation risky. Nevertheless, there are simply choices which allow to rationalize this activity and connect leisure of an historic reconstruction with rigor of history. This article, through an analysis about words of historical sources but also through the codes of these words, tries to explain how an historian is not the opponent of living history, but, at the contrary, his best ally.
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