Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… violence of society. Keith Thomas has described the masculine, violent 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 … history, which is also briefly sketched here. 1 . Keith Thomas, The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009), p.51. What were duels? Duels find their origin in the ancient ethos of … a legislation banning the practice completely. Perhaps it was the example of France which made duelling popular in England, but the practice was certainly rife in England at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Hume tells us in his …
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