Maney Publishing and "Open Access Week"

[KeithFarrell]

Copied from the LivingHistory.co.uk forum:

just stumbled across this on http://maney.co.uk/index.php/press_241011

"Maney will be offering open access to all Archaeology & Heritage content from 24 October until 4 November. During this period we will be offering free, immediate access to the results of scholarly research to use and re-use as and when you need via ingenta"

Some really interesting articles available to download - see the Arms and Armour Journal for starters

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/c ... rchaeology

There are some fantastic articles available, for example this one:
The Walpurgis Fechtbuch: An Inheritance of Constantinople?

[Ben Floyd]

Thanks for the heads up!

[KeithFarrell]

Actually, after reading that particular article, I wasn't very impressed. Some good information in it certainly but nothing groundbreaking or particularly helpful. Shame, it sounded so very interesting!

[Michael Chidester]

Yes, I've been puzzled by that article for a while. Don't know enough to agree or disagree.

[Michael-Forest]

If anyone has the time to sort through what they're offering, could someone please point out any articles in particular that are quite worth reading?

Having gone through Arms & Armour, I did find this article exploring the pedagogical nature of poetry in Fightbooks (etc.) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/m ... uw12.alice

Fascinating to me, but it won't really shed new light on the Art.

[Nicholas Moore]

I found a couple interesting articles in the Journal of Conflict Archaeology but they tend to mostly deal with overriding battle tactics and politics. There was one interesting article on forensics, specifically on the identification of war victims using insect remains that I really liked http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/m ... 1/art00008 . And another on the effectiveness of early British muskets http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/m ... 1/art00002 . But really nothing dealing with martial arts as such, sadly.

[Jeffrey Hull]

Actually, after reading that particular article, I wasn't very impressed. Some good information in it certainly but nothing groundbreaking or particularly helpful. Shame, it sounded so very interesting!

Yes - I read that article months ago and thought it rubbish.

They did not even consider the distinct possiblility of Norse or English Varangians being the source for sword & buckler for Eastern & Southern Europa.

Oh...I forgot...the general academic consensus is that all knowledge and ability and technology flowed north and west from Greece, Rome or Arabia into Western & Northern Europa - never the other way around. Even though, e.g. there are Arabic sources proclaiming the superiority of Frankish swords.

[Michael-Forest]

Actually, after reading that particular article, I wasn't very impressed. Some good information in it certainly but nothing groundbreaking or particularly helpful. Shame, it sounded so very interesting!

Yes - I read that article months ago and thought it rubbish.

They did not even consider the distinct possiblility of Norse or English Varangians being the source for sword & buckler for Eastern & Southern Europa.

Oh...I forgot...the general academic consensus is that all knowledge and ability and technology flowed north and west from Greece, Rome or Arabia into Western & Northern Europa - never the other way around. Even though, e.g. there are Arabic sources proclaiming the superiority of Frankish swords.

A caricature if ever there was one. Even mainstream historians like Victor Davis Hanson recognize that the Romans owed much of their successful military weaponry (and possibly several of their tactics) to the Celts.

[Jeffrey Hull]

A caricature if ever there was one. Even mainstream historians like Victor Davis Hanson recognize that the Romans owed much of their successful military weaponry (and possibly several of their tactics) to the Celts.

No, I was being quite serious.

Tell you what, how about this:

Mainstream Academia is caricature.

[Michael-Forest]

I'm not going to go there with you, Jeff.

Have a nice day.