Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… 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 chivalry, when honour was the … his History of England , that ‘the fury of duels’ prevailed in the reign of James I. 6 While this may have been an impression more than a reality, the early years of the seventeenth century in England certainly saw a number of debates and … Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013), p. 46. 5 . On the forms of duels and their political consequences, see Alexis Tadié, ‘Comment termine-t-on …
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