The Duel in Early Modern England
The Duel in Early Modern England
Arguments about the practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. Markku Peltonen, the distinguished intellectual historian, examines the debate, and reveals how the moral and ideological status of duelling was considered within a much broader cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. Understanding the duel involves knowing crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England. Peltonen's wide-ranging study engages the attention of a significant audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.
- The first comprehensive study of any aspect of the duel in early modern England
- A major reappraisal of civility and politeness in the early modern period
- Important contribution to Ideas in Context in an area where the Press is already very strong
Reviews & endorsements
"Markku Peltonen has written a revealing and thoughtful analysis of both the intellectual origins and ideological functions of dueling, arguing taht the practice entered English life as an appropriation of the Italian Renaissance notion of civility and increasingly served to legitimate native political and social values." - Seventeenth-Century News Brett F. Parker, University of South Carolina Upstate
Product details
March 2006Paperback
9780521025201
376 pages
228 × 154 × 24 mm
0.56kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The rise of civil courtesy and the duelling theory in Elizabethan and early Stuart England
- 2. The Jacobean anti-duelling campaign
- 3. Duelling, civility and honour in Restoration and Augustan England
- 4. Anti-duelling campaigns 1660–1720
- 5. Politeness, duelling and honour in Bernard Mandeville
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
