The Duel in Early Modern England

A pioneering analysis of duelling, politeness and civility in early modern England.

List 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.

About the author

Markku Peltonen is Senior Lecturer in General History, Department of History, University of Helsinki.

Summary

Arguments about the duel in early modern England were widespread. To understand duelling is to understand some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and this major new study will engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.

Product details

• Authors: Markku Peltonen
• Assisted by: Quentin Skinner (Editor), James Tully (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780521820622
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82062-2
• No. of pages: 374
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 757 g
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore