Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… the place of the individual in society. So that arguments about duels, as is clear from these two early texts, involve issues to do with honour, but also with war, religion, and politics. The Persistence of Duelling Whether these debates, … they were then revived. In England, the courtly practice of duelling was not accepted by the Puritans, and Cromwell issued a proclamation against it in 1654. Under the Restoration, the return of the aristocracy made duelling more … 52-8). In England, it seems that the number of duels had waned by the end of the eighteenth century (Kiernan 185). In an issue of The Spectator devoted to clubs, Addison tells us that there was even a club which he finds ‘mischievous’, the …
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