Moving the Past: Embodied Research on Discontinued Movement Cultures

Maciej Talaga, PhD, is an archaeologist and anthropologist specialised in the Central-European Late Middle Ages. His main research interests revolve around pre-modern body and movement cultures, especially late-medieval German martial arts, as well as embodied and self-reflective methodologies in the study of the past. Currently working as Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, he conducts parallel research projects on medieval martial culture and contemporary folk wrestling as part of intangible cultural heritage.

• Acknowledgements Author Biographies Introduction – Maciej TalagaChapter 1. Triangle of Diverging Incentives. Methods for Reconstruction of Personal Combat Techniques – Bartłomiej WalczakChapter 2. Leveraging Reenactment and Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) for the Understanding of Ancient Combat – Paul M. Bardunias and Benjamin R. TruskaChapter 3. Crooks, Hooks, Trips, and Taps. Reconstructing Irish Collar and Elbow Wrestling – Ruadhán MacFaddenChapter 4. Gripping Affordances of Select Post-Medieval European Sidearms – Jerzy MiklaszewskiChapter 5. Boots on the Ground: Late-Medieval Infantry Marches and Infrastructure – Charles LinChapter 6. Going Medieval on the Body. An Autoethnographic Study on a Late-Medieval Fighter’s Physical Conditioning Regimen – Maciej Talaga and Krzysztof KozakCoda: Why Moving the Past? – Maciej TalagaReferences