Bulletin Volume 16-19. Essex Institute
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Author: Essex Institute
Number of Pages: 200 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235972645
File size: 9 Mb
File Name: Bulletin.Volume.16-19.pdf
Download Link: Bulletin Volume 16-19
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...We have seen that the Mediterranean release has two forms, in one of which three fingers are brought into action; in the other only two fingers are so used. English authorities say that if one can accustom himself to draw the bow with two fingers, a better release is the result. "While the difference between these two forms seems slight, as indeed it is, yet the practice to-day among European and American archers is to draw with three fingers. It was evidently not so uuiversally the form in Europe a few centuries ago; for at this time, judging from the few examples we have seen, the archers are almost always depicted drawing with two fingers. It is true, the directions in the works of these early times as well as allusions to the subject stale that three fingers on the string is the proper method of release. Yet the few sculptures, ivory carvings, etchings, manuscripts, drawings, etc., to which we have had access, almost invariably depict the two-fingered release. It would be interesting to know whether the bow has become stiffer in later years, requiring three fingers to bend it, or whether (as more probable) the fingers have become weaker, thus requiring more fingers to do the work. It is interesting to find in these early works a uniformity in the method of release employed, and that the Saxon, Norman, Fleming, French, English, Scandinavian, and Italian practiced essentially the same release. Hansard says (see the "Book of Archery," p. 77), "All representations of archers which occur in illuminated manuscripts of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries--and I have examined some scores of them--identify the ancient with the modern practice. The penand-ink drawings of John de Rous, a bowman as well as contemporary biographer...
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