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The duel in early modern England
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ISBN: 0521820626 9780521820622 0511061757 9780511061752 0511070217 9780511070211 0511055420 9780511055423 9780511490651 0511490658 9786610430789 6610430780 9780521025201 0521025206 9780521025201 1107136229 9781107136229 1280430788 9781280430787 0511179081 9780511179082 1139148877 9781139148870 0511330693 9780511330698 Year: 2003 Volume: 65 Publisher: Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press

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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.


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Founders of British physiology : a biographical dictionary, 1820-1885
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ISBN: 0719025370 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press New York

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