Combat reenactment is a side of historical reenactment which aims to depict historical forms of combat. This may refer to either single combat, melees involving small groups, or nearly full-scale battles with hundreds of participants.
Depending on the intended effect, performances may have the aim of presenting historical martial arts reconstruction, or just offer entertainment in a "renaissance fair" context. The latter case does not qualify as "reenactment" in the strict sense and tends to serve clichés of swashbuckling held by the public (notably due to cinematic fencing) as opposed to dispelling them.
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“In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality—the principle of order versus the split atom.”
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