All Stories

  1. Confronting myths and misunderstandings about the how and why of personal combat in the Middle Ages

    Article • June 2023, JSTOR

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  2. Abbesses managed large tracts of land and needed knights to administer the holdings

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, May 2023, University of Bern

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  3. Review in English of the German PhD thesis "The Fighters of the Carolingian Rulers"

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, May 2023, University of Bern

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  4. Book review of Peter Sposato's book of the same title

    Article • Renaissance Quarterly, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  5. A thirteenth century Castilian law code containing instruction on military tactics

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, June 2021, University of Bern

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  6. Why did the heavy cavalry’s couched-lance technique arise in 11th C Europe, and not earlier?

    Article • December 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  7. The back (to the Middle Ages) history of fencing and table-top gaming as simulated combat

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, July 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  8. Cavalry horses and training mainly in Carolingian times

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, June 2018, De Gruyter

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  9. Historical European Martial Arts - training fitness, technique and tactics in longsword fencing

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, December 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann, John Gassmann, John Gassmann

  10. East meets West

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, April 2017, University of Bern

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  11. East meets West: Mounted Encounters in Early and High Mediaeval Europe

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  12. A Well Regulated Militia Political and Military Organisation in Pre-Napoleonic Switzerland (1550-1799)

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, May 2016, University of Bern

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  13. The Swiss always relied on militia; I analyse the politics, militia organisation, and performance

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  14. The Bolognese Societates Armatae of the Late 13th Century

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, October 2015, University of Bern

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  15. Honour and Fighting Social Advancement in the Early Modern Age

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, September 2015, University of Bern

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  16. How to gain honour

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann

  17. How to integrate outsiders into your social structure, and how to fail

    Article • Acta Periodica Duellatorum, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Dr. Jürg Gassmann