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Author : John Gideon Millingen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Dueling
ISBN : UVA:X000103411
Author : Richard Hopton
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Dueling
ISBN : 0749929960
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.
Author : John Gideon Millingen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Dueling
ISBN : LCCN:90019357
Author : John Gideon MILLINGEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027126315
Author : Robert Baldick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Dueling
ISBN : OCLC:1033585938
Author : Richard Hopton
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000122969649
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.
Author : Jack Kenny Williams
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 089096193X
This history of the social custom of pistol dueling in the antebellum South documents the rules for its conduct, its causes, and its typical participants. Also included is a popular dueling code from the year 1838 by John Lyde Wilson, one-time governer of South Carolina.--From publisher description.
Author : John Gideon Millingen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752421569
Reproduction of the original: The History of Duelling (in two volumes) Vol I by John Gideon Millingen
Author : John Leigh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674504387
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.
Author : John Gideon Millingen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Dueling
ISBN : OCLC:808313830
Author : John Gideon Millingen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783752445893
Reproduction of the original: The History of Duelling (Volume 2 of 2) by John Gideon Millingen
Author : Victor Kiernan
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783608416
For centuries, duelling played an integral role in the preservation of the aristocratic order in Europe, defying attempts by both church and state to ban the practice. Moreover, the romance and drama of the duel has made it an enduring fixture in films, literature, and the theatre. In The Duel in European History, renowned historian Victor Kiernan writes with his characteristic wit and insight of duelling's evolution from its medieval origins – when it was regarded as a badge of rank - to the early twentieth century, by which time it was seen as an irrational anachronism. In doing so, he shows how the duelling tradition was something unique to Europe and its colonies, and, in its contribution to the development of the officer corps, played a key part in shaping European military power. Drawing on a vast range of historical and cultural sources, this is the definitive account of a violent ritual that continues to fascinate even today.
Author : David S. Parker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228012351
The duel, and the codes of honour that governed duelling, functioned for decades in many European and Latin American countries as a shadow legal system, regulating in practice what legislators felt free to say and what journalists felt free to write. Yet the duel was also an act of potentially deadly violence and a challenge to the authority of statutory law. When duelling became widespread in early twentieth-century Uruguay, legislators facing this dilemma chose the unique and radical path of legalization. The Pen, the Sword, and the Law explores how the only country in the world to decriminalize duelling managed the tension between these informal but widely accepted “gentlemanly laws” and its own criminal code. The duel, which remained legal until 1992, was meant to ensure civility in politics and decorum in the press, but it often failed to achieve either. Drawing on rich and detailed newspaper reports of duels and challenges, parliamentary debates, legal records, private papers, and interviews, David Parker examines the role of pistols and sabres in shaping the everyday workings of a raucous public sphere. Demonstrating that the duel was no simple throwback to archaic conceptions of masculine honour and chivalry, The Pen, the Sword, and the Law illustrates how duelling went hand in hand with democracy and freedom of the press in one of South America’s most progressive nations.
Author : Barbara Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596918092
"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.
Author : J. G. Millingen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547719434
The History of Duelling in two volumes is a historical work by British author J. G. Millingen. In this chronological account, author deals with the custom and tradition of duels from the dark age of civilization to the closest examples in modern age. Concerning the dueling among the ancients, author offers examples of Achilles fighting Hector, Turnus and Aeneas and other examples from Greek and Roman history. However, he makes a distinction between these legendary combat duels and later personal duels which were prompted by different causes and reasons. Religion and love are emphasized as two main triggers that caused numerous duels throughout the history. Due to sources and documents, the book mostly deals with duels in France and Britain, but also covers this practice and tradition in other European parts and countries.
