Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… ‘Duel between Lord Hervey and the Honble William Pultney’, British Museum, 1865,0114.385, 1731. Image Attributed to Hogarth, William, ‘Copy of two soldiers fighting, one is Englishman and the other Scotchman’, British Museum, Cc,3.64, 1791. … culture which presided over seventeenth-century England: ‘Physical combat, of a more or less ritualized kind, was a part of masculine culture at every social level. Just as the upper classes had their ‘roisters’, ‘hectors’, and duellists, … but by and large, Donna Andrew’s description represents the situation with accuracy: […] following an affront, the parties were expected to approach seconds to represent them, who would attempt peacefully to resolve the conflict, but, if …
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