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Classen, Albrecht. "Symbolic Significance of the Sword in the Hero’s Hand: Beowulf, The Nibelungenlied, El Poema de Mio Cid, Volsunga Saga, and Njál’s Saga." Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 80, no. 3 (November 24, 2020): 346–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340186.

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Abstract The medieval hero cannot be imagined without a significant sword. Swords often have names and a mysterious identity. Beowulf cannot kill Grendel’s mother with his own sword, but has to resort to some of the ancient weapons lying in her lair. In the Nibelungenlied, Siegfried’s sword gets into the hand of his nemesis, Hagen, after he has murdered him. Siegfried’s widow, Kriemhild, finally takes it from Hagen and decapitates him. This, however, means her own death. In the Old Spanish El Poema de Mio Cid, the protagonist conquers two most valuable swords, and he passes them on to his sons-in-law, although they prove to be unworthy of those gifts. In the final court trial, Rodrigo Diaz demands those two swords back from the villains, and he triumphs over them. Once he has the swords back in his possession, he can proceed and destroy his enemies in this trial. Swords are not simply weapons; they are synecdoches of the hero himself, and they have the power to sing before or during battle, which is often commented on in the Old Norse sagas. This article will examine how heroic poets treated the sword as a pars pro toto of the hero and hence as agents of superpower, exacting justice and providing honor.
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Boyce, M., A. Degterev, and J. Yuan. "Caspases: an ancient cellular sword of Damocles." Cell Death & Differentiation 11, no. 1 (November 28, 2003): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.cdd.4401339.

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Potrafki, Jörg. "From Fighting to Joy in Kendo." Paragrana 22, no. 1 (June 2013): 269–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/para.2013.0018.

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Abstract To trace joyful emotions in the practice of the Japanese art of fencing is quiet complicate and uncommon. As a former martial art Kendo is straightly connected with the mortal sword fighting of the Middle Ages. Today the fight with sharp swords has been replaced by a competition trough using the sportive protection armor and bamboo sword. The serious contest between the opponents with the reference to the life-or-death constellation of ancient times marks the activity in Kendo. The primary aim is the verification of the individual development, arising from the combination of an adult character and sportive skills. At the highest level of Kendo the development of a positive personal relation to the partner is being created via the hard and battlesome competition. Under specified conditions the fight yells harmony and empathy in a social interaction through the body activity of two individuals.
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Sartori, Giovanni. "Replicating a seventeenth century sword: the Storta Project." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 7, no. 1 (July 1, 2019): 203–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/apd-2019-0005.

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Abstract Making a good “copy” of an ancient weapon means to reach different targets, not only regarding the final product of the making process but also the process itself. This means that to make a sword like this, it is necessary to initially study all the material regarding swords and blades from the same period and geographic area. This process involves not only their style, design, geometry, weights and balance, but also the cultural background of the period, the use and symbolism of the weapon and finally the original production techniques used. This article reviews and documents the “Storta project” in the context of a museum exhibition in Minsk (European Martial Arts: From Vulcan’s Forge to the Arts of Mars, 01.05-30.09.2019).
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Walsdorf, Hanna. "Nudes, Swords, and the Germanic Imagination: Renditions of Germanic Sword Dance Narratives in Early Twentieth-Century Dance." Dance Research Journal 47, no. 3 (December 2015): 27–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767715000340.

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The written history of German sword dance has seen a number of quaint twists. With the rediscovery in 1455 of a short Tacitus quote (98 C.E.) presumably proving the existence of the sword dance in ancient Germanic times, claims were soon made that it had persisted for millennia. From the late nineteenth century onward, nationalists and body culture theorists, each in their way, favored the idea of revitalizing an ethnic German dance form. This article aims to delineate the respective discourses, and illustrates these by portraying the choreographic renditions of an imagined German sword dance tradition by Olga Desmond and Harald Kreutzberg.
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Polidovych, Yu B. "PRECIOUS ITEMS FROM THE SHUMEIKO BARROW." Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine 33, no. 4 (December 25, 2019): 322–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.37445/adiu.2019.04.24.

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The paper deals to the finds from the barrow near the Shumeiko farm in the Sula river basin (now Sumy region of Ukraine) which was excavated by Sergei Mazaraki in 1899. Objects of Scythian culture were found in the mound: weapons, horse bridles, and vessels. Mikhail Rostovtsev mistakenly attributed to these finds the fragment of ancient Greek kylix of the end of the 6th century BC. Modern researchers date the barrow assemblage near the Shumeiko farm to the first half of the 6th century BC (Igor Bruyako, Denis Grechko, Denis Topal, Oleksandr Shelekhan). Sergey Polin attributes it to Early Scythian time. In the paper three precious items from the barrow are described in detail. This is a sword, the handle of which is plaqued with gold. The ancient craftsman used the granulation technique for decoration. Not only the ancient Greek jewelers used this technique. The masters of Urartu applied it as well. It was used in the decoration of the sword from the Kelermes barrow in the Kuban region, as well as on various adornments. The iron sword has an original shape and belongs to the Shumeiko type (according to Denis Topal, Oleksandr Shelekhan). Such swords were most common in the first half of the 6th century BC. The scabbard was decorated by the gold plate with images of animals and the gold tip. The analysis shows that the images of wild goats and predators are made in the early Scythian animal style. The sheath tip also corresponds to the early Scythian tradition and finds analogies in the Pre-Scythian time. On the contrary, at a later time (the end of the 6th — beginning of the 5th century BC), according to other principles (barrow No 6 near the Oleksandrivka village, Gostra Mogyla near the Tomakovka village) the tips of the scabbard were made. Near the sword the gold plate in the form of a running hare was found. It was made in the Scythian animal style. This plate was probably part of the sheath decor and adorned a side leather ledge that helped to attach the scabbard to the belt. A preliminary conclusion is made about the belonging of precious items from the Shumeiko barrow to the Kelermes horizon of antiquities of the Early Scythian culture.
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Khudyakov, Yu S., A. Yu Borisenko, and K. T. Akmatov. "An Iron Sword from Southern Siberia in the Collection of the Minusinsk Museum of Local History." Archaeology and Ethnography 18, no. 5 (2019): 99–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2019-18-5-99-105.

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Purpose. We studied a rare finding of an iron sword, that was coincidentally discovered at the beginning of the 20th Century in the outskirts of Kuragino Village on the territory of Minusinsk Hollow. At present, the finding is stored in the collection of long blade weapon objects in the Minusinsk Museum of Local History. Results. The authors traced the most significant events and results achieved in the course of previous studying of archaeological findings of ancient and medieval swords on the territory of Southern Siberia and Central Asia. Definite formal signs, considerable for identification of typological affiliation, of the sword finding from the Kuragino Village are singled out. According to the formal signs, this finding is related to a particular individual type of iron swords. The item has a long, right double-edged blade and a removable guard, which is smoothly curved to sideways of the blade, and a right handle’s haft. Conclusion. Our analysis allows us to conclude that the iron sword was likely to be used by the Yenisei Kyrgyz warriors in the course of hostilities with their adversaries among the nomads, against the Old Turks and Uyghurs people, on the territory of Southern Siberia and contiguous territories of the Central Asian region during a certain historical period, including the Early Middle Ages, in particular the third quarter of the 1st millennium A. D. That historical period included inception of the Yenisei Kyrgyz state on the territory of the steppe regions of Minusinsk Hollow, which is located to the north of the West-Sayan Mountains.
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Sapiro, David, and Bryan Webler. "Fabrication of a Bronze Age Sword using Ancient Techniques." JOM 68, no. 12 (September 19, 2016): 3180–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11837-016-2105-9.

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Berman, Joshua. "THE 'SWORD OF MOUTHS' (JUD. III 16; PS. CXLIX 6; PROV. V 4): A METAPHOR AND ITS ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN CONTEXT." Vetus Testamentum 52, no. 3 (2002): 291–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853302760197458.

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AbstractThe term "double- (or, multi-) edged sword" appears three times in the Hebrew Bible (Jud. iii 16; Prov. v 4; Ps. cxlix 6), and in the Christian Bible (Heb. iv 12; Rev. i 16; ii 12), and once each in the Apocrypha (Sir. xxi 3) and in the Pseudepigrapha (Ahiqar, col. vii 100b). Whether in Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek, the term reads in all of these texts, literally, 'a sword of mouths'. While the word stands as a trope for the potency of speech in only some of its 500 instances in the Hebrew Bible, the 'sword of mouths' does so in seven of its occurrences, across several bodies of literature, while the eighth occurrence offers a slight variation on the theme. Archaeological and philological evidence is brought in support of the notion of the orality of the image of the sword.
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Wade, Katherine Jane. "The sword and the knife: a comparison of ancient Egyptian treatment of sword injuries and present day knife trauma." Res Medica 24, no. 1 (December 31, 2017): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/resmedica.v24i1.1494.

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The Edwin Smith papyrus is the oldest known surgical treatise, thought to have been written in 1700 B.C. It was first discovered in Luxor in 1862 and was first translated from hieroglyph script by Egyptologist, James Henry Breasted in 1930. The papyrus details forty eight traumatic injuries which are topographically organised and considered formulaically through examination, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment.The Khopesh was an ancient Egyptian sickle shaped sword which was thought to have been used to inflict a slash-type sharp force injury during battle. Treatment of these slash-type wounds as described in the Edwin Smith papyrus are compared with the current treatment of equivalent slash-type injuries, commonly knife wounds in the twenty first century.Comparison of a variety of components involved in the treatment of historical and modern slash-type sharp force wounds has illustrated that despite advances in medical practice, some of the basic principles of our current treatment regimes are derived from practices established thousands of years ago by the ancient Egyptians.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ancient Sword"

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Tadlock, Stephen Kyle. "Forging the Sword of Damocles: Memory, Mercenaries, and Monarchy on Sicily." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1522241831627667.

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Butler, Margaret Erwin. "Of swords and strigils : social change in ancient Macedon /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Backhouse, George. "References to swords in the death scenes of Dido and Turnus in the Aeneid." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71764.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the references to swords in key scenes in the Aeneid – particularly the scenes of Dido’s and Turnus’ death – in order to add new perspectives on these scenes and on the way in which they impact on the presentation of Aeneas’ Roman mission in the epic. In Chapter Two I attempt to provide an outline of the mission of Aeneas. I also investigate the manner in which Dido and Turnus may be considered to be opponents of Aeneas’ mission. In Chapter Three I investigate references to swords in select scenes in book four of the Aeneid. I highlight an ambiguity in the interpretation of the sword that Dido uses to commit suicide and I also provide a description of the sword as a weapon and its place in the epic. In Chapter Four I provide an analysis of the references to swords in Dido’s and Turnus’ death scenes alongside a number of other important scenes involving mention of swords. I preface my analyses of the references to swords that play a role in interpreting Dido and Turnus’ deaths with an outline of the reasons for the deaths of each of these figures. The additional references to swords that I use in this chapter are the references to the sword in the scene of Deiphobus’ death in book six and to the sword and Priam’s act of arming himself on the night on which Troy is destroyed. At the end of Chapter Four I look at parallels between Dido and Turnus and their relationship to the mission of Aeneas. At the end of this thesis I am able to conclude that an investigation and analysis of the references to swords in select scenes in the Aeneid adds to existing scholarship in Dido’s and Turnus’ death in the following way: a more detailed investigation of the role of swords in the interpretation of Dido’s death from an erotic perspective strengthens the existing notion in scholarship that Dido is an obstacle to the mission of Aeneas.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die verwysings na swaarde in kerntonele in die Aeneïs – hoofsaaklik die sterftonele van Dido en Turnus – met die oog daarop om addisionele perspektiewe te verskaf op hierdie tonele en die impak wat hulle het op die voorstelling van Aeneas se Romeinse missie in die epos. In hoofstuk twee poog ek om ’n oorsig te bied van Aeneas se Romeinse missie. Ek stel ook ondersoek in na die mate waartoe Dido en Turnus as teenstanders van Aeneas se Romeinse missie beskou kan word. In Hoofstuk Drie ondersoek ek die verwysings na swaarde in spesifieke tonele van boek vier van die Aeneïs. Ek verwys na ’n dubbelsinnigheid in die interpretasie van die swaard wat Dido gebruik om selfmoord te pleeg en verskaf ook ’n beskrywing van die swaard as ’n wapen en die gebruik daarvan in die epos. In Hoofstuk Vier verskaf ek ‘n ontleding van die verwysings na swaarde in Dido en Turnus se sterftonele saam met ’n aantal ander belangrike tonele met verwysings na swaarde. Ek lei my ontleding van die beskrywings van die swaarde wat ’n rol speel in die interpretasie van Dido en Turnus se sterftes in met ’n uiteensetting van die redes vir die dood van elk van hierdie figure. Die addisionele verwysings na swaarde wat ek in hierdie hoofstuk ontleed, is die verwysing na die swaard in die toneel van Deiphobus se dood in boek ses en die verwysing na die swaard in die toneel waar Priamus sy wapenrusting aantrek op Troje se laaste aand. Aan die einde van Hoofstuk Vier ondersoek ek die parallele tussen Dido en Turnus en hulle verhouding tot Aeneas se Romeinse missie. Hierdie tesis ondersoek die verwysings na swaarde in kerntonele in die Aeneïs – hoofsaaklik die sterftonele van Dido en Turnus – met die oog daarop om addisionele perspektiewe te verskaf op hierdie tonele en die impak wat hulle het op die voorstelling van Aeneas se Romeinse missie in die epos. In hoofstuk twee poog ek om ’n oorsig te bied van Aeneas se Romeinse missie. Ek stel ook ondersoek in na die mate waartoe Dido en Turnus as teenstanders van Aeneas se Romeinse missie beskou kan word. In Hoofstuk Drie ondersoek ek die verwysings na swaarde in spesifieke tonele van boek vier van die Aeneïs. Ek verwys na ’n dubbelsinnigheid in die interpretasie van die swaard wat Dido gebruik om selfmoord te pleeg en verskaf ook ’n beskrywing van die swaard as ’n wapen en die gebruik daarvan in die epos. In Hoofstuk Vier verskaf ek ‘n ontleding van die verwysings na swaarde in Dido en Turnus se sterftonele saam met ’n aantal ander belangrike tonele met verwysings na swaarde. Ek lei my ontleding van die beskrywings van die swaarde wat ’n rol speel in die interpretasie van Dido en Turnus se sterftes in met ’n uiteensetting van die redes vir die dood van elk van hierdie figure. Die addisionele verwysings na swaarde wat ek in hierdie hoofstuk ontleed, is die verwysing na die swaard in die toneel van Deiphobus se dood in boek ses en die verwysing na die swaard in die toneel waar Priamus sy wapenrusting aantrek op Troje se laaste aand. Aan die einde van Hoofstuk Vier ondersoek ek die parallele tussen Dido en Turnus en hulle verhouding tot Aeneas se Romeinse missie.
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Chung, Chen Yi, and 陳怡仲. "Studing of Swords in the Ancient Chinese Novels and Their Images." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75777420580473457744.

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Books on the topic "Ancient Sword"

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Danielson, Peter. The trumpet and the sword. New York: Bantam, 1991.

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Danielson, Peter. The trumpet and the sword. New York: Bantam, 1991.

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Jacq, Christian. The flaming sword: A novel of ancient Egypt. New York: Atria Books, 2005.

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Bradford, Alfred S. With arrow, sword, and spear: A history of warfare in the ancient world. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2001.

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Khaĭdakov, Kamil. Shamshiry: Starye sabli i taĭny drevnikh masterov = Shamshirs : Old sabres and the secrets of ancient sword making. Moskva: OOO Izdatelʹstvo "Bars", 2013.

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Isser, Stanley Jerome. The sword of Goliath: David in heroic literature. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

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In the shadow of the sword: The battle for global empire and the end of an ancient world. London: Little, Brown, 2012.

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Arden, Carolin. Verlockende Schätze. Wangen: PiB, Pia Bächtold, 2010.

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Scholastic Inc. Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc., 1990.

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Ninja Gaiden. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc., 1990.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ancient Sword"

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Wells, Peter S. "Status and Violence." In How Ancient Europeans Saw the World. Princeton University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691143385.003.0007.

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This chapter focuses on sword and scabbards. Swords were important visual objects, larger than most other objects in Bronze and Iron Age Europe, and their shape made them visually striking. Two parts of the sword were especially important in this regard. In the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, the hilt and pommel were often the vehicles for elaborate eye-catching ornament. When a sword was in its scabbard, whether worn at the side of the bearer, hanging on a wall, or placed in the burial chamber, the only parts of the weapon that were visible were the handle and its end. During the Middle and Late Iron Age, the scabbard became especially important as a vehicle for decorative elaboration. Bronze and Early Iron Age scabbards were mostly made of wood, and we do not, therefore have much information about how they were decorated. From the end of the Early La Tène period on, however, swords were long, and scabbards of bronze and iron offered extensive rectangular surfaces for decoration.
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"7. The Survival of Technology From the Ancient World." In The Sword and the Crucible, 96–115. BRILL, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004229334_008.

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Mollea, Simone. "Humanitas: A Double-edged Sword in Apuleius the Orator?" In The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 373–86. De Gruyter, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110611168-018.

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Scott, Sir Walter. "Chapter VI The Adieus of Waverley." In Waverley. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198716594.003.0008.

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It was upon the evening of this memorable Sunday that Sir Everard entered the library, where he narrowly missed surprising our young hero as he went through the guards of the broad-sword* with the ancient brand of old Sir Hildebrand, which, being...
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"Forging founders (zhushi 築氏), smelting founders (yeshi 冶氏), and sword smiths (taoshi 桃氏)." In Ancient Chinese Encyclopedia of Technology, 62–66. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203108987-14.

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Vetter, Lara. "Facing the Past, Becoming l’autre." In A Curious Peril. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813054568.003.0008.

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Bringing together two prose narratives that consider sexual betrayal in relationship to empire, Chapter 7 compares the treatment of the “other woman” in the 1926 “Hipparchia,” to that in Sword. The chapter argues that in earlier works H.D. is unable to tolerate alterity, fearing engulfment by or repudiating the other, and that she consistently casts Romans as other, as hostile conquerors of her beloved Ancient Greece. In Sword she creates an autobiographical character, by contrast, that inhabits the Roman body of the other woman. For H.D. in 1947, imaginatively embodying the position of l’autre Romain constitutes an attempt to understand, even embrace, the permeable and contingent nature of the relationship between self and other, to exorcise the “political onus” of German-ness.
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Vetter, Lara. "Märchen and Historical Fiction." In A Curious Peril. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813054568.003.0004.

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Chapter 3 examines the second half of The Sword Went Out to Sea. This chapter looks at how H.D. combines fairy tale and historical fiction to create the fragmentary vignettes that comprise Part II of the novel. In the second half of Sword, the narrative spins out centrifugally into vignettes that record the history of Britain by focusing on scenes of war and imperialism from the ancient world to the Renaissance. In these vignettes, history is a seemingly endless series of one nation conquering and colonizing another. The unresolvable fracture of narrative form recreates the experience of war, in effect traumatizing her readers. Moreover, by constructing a text of generic hybridity that deconstructs the myriad genres it deploys, she demonstrates the fictionality of nationhood and the impossibility of its representation.
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Wells, Peter S. "Of Monsters and Flowers." In How Ancient Europeans Saw the World. Princeton University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691143385.003.0001.

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This chapter first discusses the new style of imagery and ornament that emerged during the fifth century BC. The new style has been the source of endless controversy since the latter half of the nineteenth century. Strange creatures, part human, part beast, were crafted onto gold and bronze jewelry and cast onto the handles and lids of bronze vessels. Metalsmiths created lush new forms of decoration—incised and relief ornament based on floral motifs such as leaves and petals, with spirals, S-curves, and whirligigs decorating objects ranging from pottery to sword scabbards. This style was a radical departure from the forms of representation and decoration that preceded it. The chapter then sets out the book's purpose, namely to study a two-thousand-year period in Europe, from 2000 BC to the Roman conquests during the last century BC and the first century AD, known by the terms “Bronze Age” and “Iron Age.”
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"A Double Edged Sword—The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture." In The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, 341–56. BRILL, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004347724_016.

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Smallman-Raynor, Matthew, and Andrew Cliff. "Wars and War Epidemics." In War Epidemics. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233640.003.0010.

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Disease is a head of the Hydra, War. In his classic book, The Epidemics of the Middle Ages, J. F. C. Hecker (1859) paints an apocalyptic picture of the war–disease association. For Hecker, infectious diseases, the ‘unfettered powers of nature . . . inscrutable in their dominion, destructive in their effects, stay the course of events, baffle the grandest plans, paralyse the boldest flights of the mind, and when victory seemed within their grasp, have often annihilated embattled hosts with the flaming sword of the angel of death’ (Hecker, 1859: 212). The theme is developed by August Hirsch who, in the second edition of his Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology (1883), was repeatedly moved to comment on the manner in which wars fuelled the spread of infectious diseases. Writing of Asiatic cholera in the Baltic provinces and Poland in 1830–1, Hirsch concluded that the ‘military operations of the Russo-Polish war contributed materially to its diffusion’ (i. 398). Similarly, Hirsch traced one of the last ‘considerable’ outbreaks of bubonic plague in nineteenth-century Europe to ‘1828–29, when the Russian and Turkish forces came into collision in Wallachia’ (i. 503–4), while the waves of typhus fever that rolled around early-modern Europe were attributed to ‘the turmoil of great wars, which . . . shook the whole framework of European society to its foundations’ (i. 549). In much earlier times, Book I of Homer’s epic poem the Iliad—which may well be based on historical fact—tells of a mysterious epidemic that smote the camp of the Greek Army outside Troy around 1200 BC. According to Homer, the fate of King Agamemnon’s legions was sealed thus: . . . Say then, what God the fatal strife provoked? Jove’s and Latona’s son; he filled with wrath Against the King, with deadly pestilence The camp afflicted,—and the people died,— For Chryses’ sake . . . . . . Elsewhere, the celebrated works of ancient Greek historians—Herodotus (?484–?425 BC) on the later Assyrian Wars, Thucydides (?460–?395 BC) on the Great Peloponnesian War and Diodorus Siculus ( fl. first century BC) on the Carthaginian Wars—all attest to the antiquity of the war–disease association. Of ancient Rome, Bruce-Chwatt notes that ‘Foreign invaders . . . found that the deadly fevers of the Compagna Romana protected the Eternal City better than any man-made weapons’ (cited in Beadle and Hoffman, 1993: 320).
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Conference papers on the topic "Ancient Sword"

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"Comparative Study of Ancient and Modern Japanese Swords using Neutron Tomography." In Neutron Radiography. Materials Research Forum LLC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781644900574-34.

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"Structural Characterization of Ancient Japanese Swords from MAAS Using Neutron Strain Scanning Measurements." In Residual Stresses 10. Materials Research Forum LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781945291173-75.

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