The History Of Duels
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The History of Duels
Author | : John Cockburn |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Dueling |
ISBN | : KUL:IE9873720 |
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Pistols at Dawn
Author | : Richard Hopton |
Publsiher | : Little Brown GBR |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Dueling |
ISBN | : 0749929960 |
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After the gross and unjustifiable insults you have offered me both as a soldier and a gentleman, I conclude you must be prepared to give me that satisfaction I am entitled to. I am therefore to request that you will name a place and hour of meeting.' So runs a typical challenge to a duel from the early 19th century; formal, polite - and potentially fatal. Duelling is deeply imbedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and novels; it evokes a golden past, of gentlemen defending their honour (or that of their wives) in the early morning light of a wooded glade; of frockcoats, rapiers and pistols. From the duel's roots in medieval chivalric tournaments, to the unforgiving code of honour in which death was preferable to shame, this fascinating history recounts - with the aid of numerous vivid eye-witness accounts - all the drama and sheer terror of the duel.
The History of Duels
Author | : John Cockburn |
Publsiher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9785875325335 |
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Pistols at Dawn
Author | : Richard Hopton |
Publsiher | : Piatkus Books |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : IND:30000122969649 |
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Duelling is embedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and books. This book traces the history of the duel from its medieval antecedents in trial by combat and chivalric tournaments. Using numerous accounts of actual duels, it shows how the arcane rules of the duel evolved.
The History of Duelling
Author | : John Gideon Millingen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : Dueling |
ISBN | : UVA:X000103411 |
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Touch
Author | : John Leigh |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674504387 |
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Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.
Gentlemen s Blood
Author | : Barbara Holland |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2008-12-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781596918092 |
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"Never, never, did I imagine that dueling could be so enthralling, outrageous, gruesome, tragic, and, yes, ridiculous...Lively humor and sparkling prose." -Wall Street Journal The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. The duel was essential to private, public, and political life, and those who followed the elaborate codes of procedure were seldom prosecuted and rarely convicted-for, in fact, they were obeying a grand old tradition. Based on her fascinating 1997 Smithsonian article, Barbara Holland's Gentlemen's Blood is the first trade book to trace the remarkable, often gruesome, sometimes comical history of the Western tradition of defending one's honor.