The Duel in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Markku Peltonen is Senior Lecturer in General History, Department of History, University of Helsinki. Klappentext Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate! and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy! civility and politeness. The advocates of the duel! following Italian and French examples! contended that it maintained and enhanced politeness; its critics by contrast increasingly severed duelling from civility! and this separation became part of a vigorous attempt in the late seventeenth century and beyond to redefine civility! politeness and indeed the nature and evolution of Englishness. To understand the duel is to understand much more fully some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England! and Markku Peltonen's study will thus engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. The advocates of the duel, following Italian and French examples, contended that it maintained and enhanced politeness; its critics by contrast increasingly severed duelling from civility, and this separation became part of a vigorous attempt in the late seventeenth century and beyond to redefine civility, politeness and indeed the nature and evolution of Englishness. To understand the duel is to understand much more fully some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and Markku Peltonen s study will thus engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.

Résumé
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.

Contenu
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.